The possible role of taurine and GABA as endogenous cryogens in the rabbit: Changes in CSF levels in heat-stress

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 483, Issue , 2000, Pages 335-344

  Frosini, Maria ^a   Sesti, Casilde ^a   Palmi, Mitri ^a   Valoti, Massimo ^a   Fusi, Fabio ^a   Mantovani, Piero ^a   Bianchi, Loria ^b   Della Corte, Laura ^b   Sgaragli, Giampietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Farmacologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ARGIPRESSIN; TAURINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEVER; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; MALE; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; FEVER; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MALE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RABBITS; TAURINE;

EID: 0034585696     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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