Changes in brain glutamine synthetase activity in congenital hydrocephalic rats (LEW-HYR) after ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 663-668

  Yamada, Yuji ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Watanabe, Yasuo ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Congenital hydrocephalic rat; Glutamine synthetase; Hydrocortisone; Methionine sulfoximine; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; HYDROCORTISONE; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0030922927     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.37.663     Document Type: Article

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