Acute effects of acetyl-L-carnitine on sodium cyanide-induced behavioral and biochemical deficits

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 435-443

  Prickaerts, Jos ^a   Blokland, Arjan ^a   Bothmer, John ^b   Honig, Wiel ^a   Ittersum, Marjanne Markerink Van ^a   Jolles, Jelle ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JANSSEN RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; INOSITOL; LEVACECARNINE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITIDE; SODIUM CYANIDE;

ACYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ACETYLCARNITINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENERGY METABOLISM; MALE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SODIUM CYANIDE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031797052     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-0186(98)00047-3     Document Type: Article

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