Cerebrospinal fluid hypoxanthine, xanthine and uric acid levels may reflect glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity in different neurological diseases

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 25-28

  Stover, John F ^a   Lowitzsch, Klaus ^b   Kempski, Oliver S ^a  

^a Inst Neurosurgical Pathophysiology   (Germany)

^b Department of Neurology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenosine triphosphate; Glutamate; Hypoxanthine; Lactate Cerebrospinal fluid; Oxygen free radicals; Uric acid; Xanthine

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; OXYGEN RADICAL; URIC ACID DERIVATIVE; XANTHINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CYTOLYSIS; EPILEPSY; EXCITABLE MEMBRANE; MENINGITIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STROKE;

ADULT; ALBUMINS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; HYPOXANTHINE; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; URIC ACID; XANTHINE;

EID: 0031442231     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00840-9     Document Type: Article

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