Increased glutathione levels in neurochemically identified fibre systems in the aged rat lumbar motor nuclei

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2935-2948

  Ramírez León, Vania ^a,b   Kullberg, Susanna ^a   Hjelle, Ole Petter ^b   Ottersen, Ole Petter ^b   Ulfhake, Brun ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

aminobutyric acid; Boutons; Freeze substitution; Glutamate; Glycine; Motoneuron; Post embedding immunohistochemistry; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTIBODY; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SCAVENGER;

AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; AXONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032839391     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00710.x     Document Type: Article

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