Age-related changes of the nitric oxide system in the rat brain

Brain Research

Volumn 956, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 385-392

  Siles, Eva ^a   Martínez Lara, Esther ^a   Cauelo, Ana ^a   Sánchez, Marta ^a   Hernández, Raquel ^a   López Ramos, Juan Carlos ^a   Del Moral, María Luisa ^a   Esteban, Francisco José ^a   Blanco, Santos ^a   Pedrosa, Juan Angel ^a   Rodrigo, José ^b   Peinado, María Angeles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; eNOS; iNOS; Nitrate nitrite quantification; Nitrotyrosine modified protein; nNOS

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; ISOENZYME; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRITE;

AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECORTICATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NITRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CEREBRAL DECORTICATION; MALE; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; NITRITES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0037195567     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03575-8     Document Type: Article

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