Memory restoring and neuroprotective effects of the proline-containing dipeptide, GVS-111, in a photochemical stroke model

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 549-553

  Ostrovskaya, Rita U ^a,d   Romanova, G A ^b   Barskov, I V ^c   Shanina, E V ^c   Gudasheva, T A ^a   Victorov, I V ^c   Voronina, T A ^a   Seredenin, S B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENERAL PATHOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d NONE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cognition; GVS 111; Neuroprotection; Photochemically induced thrombosis; Rat; Substituted prolyl containing dipeptide

Indexed keywords

ESTER DERIVATIVE; ION CHANNEL; N PHENYLACETYLPROLYLGLYCINE ETHYL ESTER; PHENYLACETYLPROLYLGLYCYL ETHYL ESTER; ROSE BENGAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHANNEL GATING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; RAT; STROKE;

EID: 0032847304     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008877-199909000-00013     Document Type: Article

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