Neurodegeneration and glia response in rat hippocampus following nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME)

Neurotoxicity Research

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 307-319

  Harry, G Jean ^a   Sills, Robert ^a   Schlosser, Michael J ^b   Maier, William E ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Interleukin 1 ; Interleukin 6; Microglia; Trimethyltin; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; TRIMETHYLTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

EID: 0034786974     PISSN: 10298428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03033270     Document Type: Article

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