The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) glycoprotein gp120 reduces the expression of neuronal nitric oxide synthase in the hippocampus but not in the cerebral cortex and medial septal nucleus of rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 75-78

  Bagetta, Giacinto ^a,b   Corasaniti, M Tiziana ^c   Costa, Nicola ^c   Berliocchi, Laura ^b   Finazzi Agrò, Alessandro ^b   Nisticò, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

apoptosis; cerebral cortex; hippocampus; HIV 1 gp120; nitric oxide synthase expression

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0030940459     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13463-2     Document Type: Article

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