Increased nitric oxide levels and nitric oxide synthase isoform expression in the cerebellum of the taiep rat during its severe demyelination stage

Brain Research

Volumn 1121, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 221-230

  Alicia Leon Chavez, Bertha ^a   Aguilar Alonso, Patricia ^a   Antonio Gonzalez Barrios, Juan ^b,d   Eguibar, J Ramón ^a   Ugarte, Araceli ^a   Brambila, Eduardo ^a   Ruiz Arguelles, Alejandro ^c   Martinez Fong, Daniel ^d  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL REGIONAL 1 DE OCTUBRE   (Mexico)

^c Laboratorios Clinicos de Puebla   (Mexico)

^d Cinvestav   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Glial activation; Hypomyelination; Microglia cell; Neuroimmunology; Nitrite; Reactive astrocytosis

Indexed keywords

INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ISOENZYMES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33751330428     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.08.097     Document Type: Article

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