Inhibition of phosphatidylcholine synthesis is associated with excitotoxic cell death in cerebellar granule cell cultures

Amino Acids

Volumn 23, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 19-25

  Gasull, T ^a   DeGregorio Rocasolano, N ^a   Enguita, M ^a   Hurtan, J M ^a   Trullas, Ramon ^a  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Excitotoxicity; Glutamate; Neuronal death; Phosphatidylcholine

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CHOLINE KINASE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CEREBELLUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GRANULE CELL; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; CHOLINE; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MITOCHONDRIA; NEURONS; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRITIUM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036392017     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-001-0104-8     Document Type: Article

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