Removal after addition of NO-generating agents and 8-bromo-cyclic GMP causes morphological change of cultured cerebellar astrocytes: A new mode of NO action

Brain Research

Volumn 744, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 344-346

  Tomita, Atsuhisa ^a,b   Yoshida, Sachiko ^a   Yano, Masafumi ^a   Kirino, Yutaka ^a   Kawahara, Shigenori ^a   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

cell morphology; cerebellar astrocyte; cyclic guanosine monophosphate; nitric oxide; primary culture

Indexed keywords

8 BROMO CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; CYCLIC GMP; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031036829     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01252-8     Document Type: Article

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