Cytidine diphosphate choline administration activates brain cytidine triphosphate: Phosphocholine cytidylytransferase in aged rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 163-166

  Giménez, Rosa ^a   Soler, Susana ^a   Aguilar, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase regulation; Cytidine (5') diphosphocholine

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; CITICOLINE; MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SHORT SURVEY; STROKE;

EID: 0344500821     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00660-6     Document Type: Article

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