Indole-3-propionate: A potent hydroxyl radical scavenger in rat brain

Brain Research

Volumn 815, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 382-388

  Poeggeler, Burkhard ^a   Pappolla, Miguel A ^b   Hardeland, Rüdiger ^c   Rassoulpour, Arash ^a   Hodgkins, Paul S ^a   Guidetti, Paolo ^a   Schwarcz, Robert ^a  

^a MARYLAND PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glutathione; Indole acids; Lipid peroxidation; Neurodegeneration; Neuroprotection; Striatum

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; INDOLEPROPIONIC ACID; MALONALDEHYDE; SCAVENGER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CORPUS STRIATUM; KINETICS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAVENGING SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BENZOTHIAZOLES; BRAIN; CATIONS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HYDROXYL RADICAL; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; INDOLES; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SULFONIC ACIDS;

EID: 0033537334     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01027-0     Document Type: Article

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