Prenatal hypoxia-ischemia alters expression and activity of nitric oxide synthase in the young rat brain and causes learning deficits

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 359-365

  Cai, Zhengwei ^a,c   Xiao, Feng ^a   Lee, Buyean ^b   Paul, Ian A ^b   Rhodes, Philip G ^a  

^a Division of Newborn Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrauterine hypoxia ischemia; Morris water maze; Nitric oxide synthase; NOS activity; Passive avoidance; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS; FETUS HYPOXIA; LEARNING DISORDER; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAZE LEARNING; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SWIMMING;

EID: 0033565249     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(99)00076-3     Document Type: Article

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