Uptake of agmatine into rat brain synaptosomes: Possible role of cation channels

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2421-2426

  Sastre, Magdalena ^a   Regunathan, Soundararajan ^a   Reis, Donald J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agmatine; Calcium channels; Polyamines; Synaptosomes; Transport

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CATION CHANNEL; OUABAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALIA; STROPHANTHUS GRATUS;

EID: 0030658984     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1997.69062421.x     Document Type: Article

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