Nitric oxide enhances amino acid release from immature chick embryo retina

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 79-82

  Ientile, Riccardo ^a   Picciurro, Vincenzo ^a   Pedale, Santa ^a   Nucci, Carlo ^b   Malecka, Bozena ^a   Nisticò, Giuseppe ^b   Macaione, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amino acid release; Chick retina; Development; N Methyl D aspartate receptors; Nitric oxide; S Nitroso N acetylpenicillamine; Sodium nitroprusside

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 8 BROMO CYCLIC GMP; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; DIZOCILPINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HEMOGLOBIN; N ACETYL S NITROSOPENICILLAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; ZAPRINAST;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HEMOGLOBINS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE; PENICILLAMINE; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RETINA; S-NITROSO-N-ACETYLPENICILLAMINE;

EID: 0030598413     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13163-3     Document Type: Article

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