Arginine and ornithine decarboxylation in rodent brain: Coincidental changes during development and after ischemia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-36

  Gilad, Gad M ^a   Gilad, Varda H ^a   Rabey, Jose M ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agmatine; Arginine decarboxylase; Gerbil; Ornithine decarboxylase; Polyamines; Putrescine; Rat

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; ARGININE; ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030595281     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12996-7     Document Type: Article

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