Extracellular putrescine content after acute excitotoxic brain damage in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 330, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 74-78

  Vivó, Meritxell ^a   Camón, Lluïsa ^a   De Vera, Núria ^a   Martínez, Emili ^a  

^a INST D INVESTIGACIONS B   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kainic acid; Microdialysis; Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC); Polyamines; Putrescine; Spermidine; Striatum

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN; KAINIC ACID; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN LEVEL; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; KAINIC ACID; MALE; PUTRESCINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPERMIDINE;

EID: 0037072503     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00733-4     Document Type: Article

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