Benefit of a combined treatment with trientine and ascorbate in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis model mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 159-162

  Nagano, Seiichi ^a   Ogawa, Yasuko ^a   Yanagihara, Takehiko ^a   Sakoda, Saburo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascorbate; Copper; Copper zinc superoxide dismutase; Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Transgenic mice; Trientine

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRIENTINE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER METABOLISM; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FLUID INTAKE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; CHELATING AGENTS; COPPER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRIETHYLENETETRAMINE;

EID: 0033597218     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00227-X     Document Type: Article

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