Uric acid protects neurons against excitotoxic and metabolic insults in cell culture, and against focal ischemic brain injury in vivo

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 613-625

  Yu, Zai Fang ^a   Bruce Keller, Annadora J ^a   Goodman, Y ^a   Mattson, Mark P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Apoptosis; Calcium; Cyanide; Fura 2; Glutamate; Hippocampus; Mitochondrial transmembrane potential; Peroxynitrite; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CALCIUM ION; CYANIDE; FURA 2; GLUTAMIC ACID; PEROXYNITRITE; URIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PROTECTION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STROKE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SODIUM CYANIDE; URIC ACID;

EID: 0346232735     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19980901)53:5<613::AID-JNR11>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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