Structure-Activity Analysis of Guanidine Group in Agmatine for Brain Agmatinase

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1009, Issue , 2003, Pages 52-63

  Huang, M J ^a   Regunathan, S ^b   Botta, M ^c   Lee, K ^a   McClendon, E ^a   Yi, G B ^b   Pedersen, M L ^d   Berkowitz, D B ^d   Wang, G ^b   Travagli, M ^c   Piletz, J E ^a,b  

^a JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agmatinase; Agmatine; Arginine decarboxylase; Guanidine; Nitric oxide synthase; NMDA receptor

Indexed keywords

7 NITROINDAZOLE; AGMATINASE; AGMATINE; AMINOGUANIDINE; ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE; BRAIN ENZYME; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ATOM; CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; GEOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; RECEPTOR BINDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 10744228217     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1304.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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