Closed head injury increases extracellular levels of antioxidants in rat hippocampus in vivo: An adaptive mechanism?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 316, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 169-172

  Moor, Eitan ^a   Kohen, Ron ^a   Reiter, Russel J ^b   Shohami, Esther ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Ascorbic acid; Closed head injury; Head trauma; Microdialysis; Oxidative stress; Uric acid

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; URIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIALYSIS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEAD INJURY; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BRAIN INJURIES; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; UP-REGULATION; URIC ACID;

EID: 0035966149     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02394-1     Document Type: Article

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