Increase of the ornithine decarboxylase/polyamine system and transglutaminase upregulation in the spinal cord of aged rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 62-66

  Virgili, Marco ^a   Necchi, Daniela ^b   Scherini, Elda ^b   Contestabile, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; Ornithine decarboxylase; Polyamines; Rat; Spinal cord; Tissue transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINE; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE;

AGING; AMINATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CATALYSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOGENIC POLYAMINES; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; TRANSGLUTAMINASES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0035903060     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02019-5     Document Type: Article

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