Cryopreservation of rat cortical synaptosomes and analysis of glucose and glutamate transporter activities, and mitochondrial function

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 76-82

  Begley, James G ^a   Butterfield, D Allan ^b   Keller, Jeffrey N ^a,b   Koppal, Tanuja ^b   Drake, Jennifer ^b   Mattson, Mark P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; Esterase; Excitatory amino acid; Mitochondrial respiration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CRYOPRESERVATION; ESTERASES; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; NEOCORTEX; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTOSOMES;

EID: 0032171008     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(98)00024-5     Document Type: Article

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