Effects of taurine deficiency and chronic methanol administration on rat retina, optic nerve and brain amino acids and monoamines

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 253-261

  Gonzalez Quevedo A ^a   Obregon F ^b   Urbina, M ^b   Rousso T ^a   Lima, L ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROLOGÍA Y NEUROCIRUGÍA   (Cuba)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

alanine; Methanol toxicity; Monoamines; Optic nerve; Retina; Taurine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; BETA ALANINE; BRAIN MONOAMINE; DOPAMINE; DRINKING WATER; FOLIC ACID; METHANOL; METHOTREXATE; SEROTONIN; TAURINE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TOXICITY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTOXICATION; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RETINA;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ASPARAGINE; BETA-ALANINE; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOPAMINE; DRINKING; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; MALE; METHANOL; METHOTREXATE; OPTIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; SEROTONIN; TAURINE; THREONINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0042242703     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415031000151558     Document Type: Article

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