Age-related reductions in the activities of antioxidant enzymes in the rat inferior colliculus

Hearing Research

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 169-180

  Mei, Yun ^a   Gawai, K R ^a   Nie, Zhongzhen ^a   Ramkumar, Vickram ^a   Helfert, Robert H ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Antioxidant enzyme; Gamma aminobutyric acid; Inferior colliculus; Malondialdehyde; Mitochondrion; Protein kinase C

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTIOXIDANT; MALONALDEHYDE; PROTEIN KINASE C; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEARING LOSS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CATALASE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; ISOENZYMES; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; NEURONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN KINASE C-ALPHA; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0032767379     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(99)00103-3     Document Type: Article

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