Oxidative stress in brain during experimental bacterial meningitis: Differential effects of α-phenyl-tert-butyl nitrone and N-acetylcysteine treatment

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 754-762

  Christen, Stephan ^a   Schaper, Manuela ^a   Lykkesfeldt, Jens ^b   Siegenthaler, Corinne ^a   Bifrare, Yoeng Delphine ^a   Banič, Staša ^a   Leib, Stephen L ^a   Täuber, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Phenyl tert butyl nitrone; Ascorbate; Free radicals; Glutathione; Inflammation; Lipid peroxidation; N Acetylcysteine; Neuronal injury; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBATE OXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; N TERT BUTYL ALPHA PHENYLNITRONE; NITRATE; NITRITE; PYRIDINE NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MODULATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GLUTATHIONE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0035884727     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(01)00642-6     Document Type: Article

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