Neuroprotective nitric oxide synthase inhibitor reduces intracellular calcium accumulation following transient global ischemia in the gerbil

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-20

  Kohno, Keiji ^a   Higuchi, Tohru ^a   Ohta, Shinsuke ^a   Kohno, Kanehisa ^a   Kumon, Yoshiaki ^a   Sakaki, Saburo ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

calcium; delayed neuronal death; endoplasmic reticulum; hippocampus; mitochondria; Mongolian gerbil; nitric oxide; nitric oxide synthase inhibitor

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GERBIL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GERBILLINAE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROARGININE; REPERFUSION;

EID: 0031048249     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13459-0     Document Type: Article

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