Brain injury after hypoxia-ischemia in newborn rats: Relationship to extracellular levels of excitatory amino acids and cysteine

Brain Research

Volumn 750, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 325-328

  Puka Sundvall, M ^a   Sandberg, M ^a   Hagberg, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cysteine; excitatory amino acid; hypoxia ischemia; neonatal rat; neurotoxicity

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HYPOXIA; ISCHEMIA; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CYSTEINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPERFUSION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031044515     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00024-3     Document Type: Article

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