Glutamine synthetase activities in spinal white and gray matter 7 days following spinal cord injury in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 291, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-4

  Benton, Richard L ^a   Ross, C David ^b   Miller, Kenneth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Glutamine; Glutamine synthetase; Injury; Rat; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; GLIA; GRAY MATTER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; NECK; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0034623332     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01362-8     Document Type: Article

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