Increased ornithine decarboxylase activity and protein level in the cortex following traumatic brain injury in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 783, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 163-166

  Raghavendra Rao, Vemuganti L ^a   Başkaya, Mustafa K ^a   Muralikrishna Rao, A ^a   Doǧan, Aclan ^a   Dempsey, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ornithine decarboxylase; Polyamine; Traumatic brain injury; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RAT; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0345267220     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01301-2     Document Type: Article

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