Application of silicon microphysiometry to tissue slices: Detection of metabolic correlates of selective vulnerability

Brain Research

Volumn 752, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 99-106

  Ajilore, Olusola A ^a   Sapolsky, Robert M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hippocampal slice; metabolism; microphysiometry; neurotoxicity; selective neuronal vulnerability

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; KAINIC ACID;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CYANIDES; DRUG SYNERGISM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; PHYSIOLOGY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILICON;

EID: 0031000947     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01456-4     Document Type: Article

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