Neuronal nitric oxide synthase is permanently decreased in the cerebellum of rats subjected to chronic neonatal blockade of N-methyl-D- aspartate receptors

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-4

  Virgili, Marco ^a   Facchinetti, Fabrizio ^a,b   Sparapani, Mauro ^a   Tregnago, Manuela ^a   Lucchi, Roberta ^a   Dall'Olio, Rossella ^a   Gandolfi, Ottavio ^a   Contestabile, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Cerebellum; N methyl D aspartate receptor antagonist; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 4 METHYL 5 PHOSPHONO 3 PENTENOIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; 2 CHLOROADENOSINE; CALCIUM; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DIZOCILPINE; EMONAPRIDE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BENZAMIDES; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBELLUM; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; HYPERKINESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TIME;

EID: 0032509322     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00742-3     Document Type: Article

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