iNOS and nitrotyrosine immunoreactivity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 291, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 44-48

  Sasaki, Shoichi ^a   Shibata, Noriyuki ^b   Komori, Takashi ^c   Iwata, Makoto ^a  

^a Tokyo Women's Medical University   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Free radicals; Immunohistochemistry; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Motor neuron disease; Nitrotyrosine; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; FREE RADICAL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ATROPHY; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; DENDRITE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROPIL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TYROSINE;

EID: 0034623301     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01370-7     Document Type: Article

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