Effect of L-carnitine pretreatment on 3-nitropropionic acid-induced inhibition of rat brain succinate dehydrogenase activity

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 939, Issue , 2001, Pages 359-365

  Binienda, Zbigniew K ^a,b   Sadovova, Natalya V ^a   Rountree, Robert L ^a   Scallet, Andrew C ^a   Ali, Syed F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

L Carnitine; Neuroprotection; Rat brain; Succinate dehydrogenase activity

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; BRAIN ENZYME; CARNITINE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0034931545     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb03645.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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