Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity is higher in the olfactory bulb than in other brain areas

Brain Research

Volumn 744, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 138-142

  Ninfali, Paolino ^a   Aluigi, Gianfranca ^a   Balduini, Walter ^a   Pompella, Alfonso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

antioxidant enzymes; glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase; olfactory bulb; periglomerular cell; rat

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTATHIONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; OLFACTORY BULB; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RATS; SEPTAL NUCLEI; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

EID: 0031026722     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)00933-X     Document Type: Article

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