Changes in blood-brain barrier permeability following neurotoxic lesions of rat brain can be visualised with trypan blue

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-121

  Reynolds, D S ^a   Morton, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 Nitropropionic acid; Blood brain barrier; Excitotoxicity; Neurodegeneration; Rat; Striatum; Trypan blue

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; NEUROTOXIN; QUINOLINIC ACID; TRYPAN BLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPIL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN MAPPING; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRO COMPOUNDS; OXAZINES; PERFUSION; PERMEABILITY; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STAINING AND LABELING; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TRYPAN BLUE;

EID: 0032583783     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(97)00168-4     Document Type: Article

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