Blockade of NAALADase: A novel neuroprotective strategy based on limiting glutamate and elevating NAAG

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 890, Issue , 1999, Pages 400-405

  Vornov, James J ^a   Wozniak, Krystyna ^a   Lu, May ^a   Jackson, Paul ^a   Tsukamoto, Takashi ^a   Wang, Eric ^a   Slusher, Barbara ^a  

^a GUILFORD PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 (PHOSPHONOMETHYL)PENTANEDIOIC ACID; DIPEPTIDASE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; MICRODIALYSIS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPERFUSION; STROKE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033403095     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08019.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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