The effect of a spinal cord hemisection on changes in nitric oxide synthase pools in the site of injury and in regions located far away from the injured site

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 26, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 1367-1385

  Lukáčová, Nadežda ^a   Kolesárová, Mária ^a   Kuchárová, Karolína ^a   Pavel, Jaroslav ^a   Kolesár, Dalibor ^a   Radoňák, Jozef ^b   Maršala, Martin ^c   Chalimoniuk, Malgorzata ^d   Langfort, Jozef ^e   Maršala, Jozef ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^e POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cervicothoracic and lumbosacral intumescence; Immunocytochemistry; Nitric oxide synthase; Radioassay; Th10 Th11 spinal cord hemisection; Western blot analysis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM DEPENDENT NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; CALCIUM ION; CONSTITUTIVE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RADIOASSAY; RADIODENSITOMETRY; SOMATIC CELL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; STAINING; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RABBITS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33845545079     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-006-9092-2     Document Type: Article

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