Inhibition of glutamate decarboxylase activity by 3-mercaptopropionic acid has different time course in the immature and adult rat brains

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 68-70

  Netopilová, Miloslava ^a   Dršata, Jaroslav ^a   Haugvicová, Renata ^b   Kubová, Hana ^b   Mareš, Pavel ^b  

^a Charles University in Prague Faculty of Pharmacy   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

3 Mercaptopropionic acid; Glutamate decarboxylase; Ontogenesis; Rat; Seizures; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

3 MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE;

EID: 0342506809     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00241-3     Document Type: Article

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