Ethanol and acetaldehyde induce similar changes in extracellular levels of glutamate, taurine and GABA in rat anterior cingulate cortex

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-258

  Zuo, Gong Cheng ^a   Yang, Jing Yu ^a   Hao, Yue ^a   Dong, Ying Xu ^a   Wu, Chun Fu ^a  

^a SHENYANG PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acetaldehyde; Anterior cingulate cortex; Ethanol; GABA; Glutamate; Taurine

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETALDEHYDE; ALCOHOL; AMINO ACID; CATALASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; SODIUM AZIDE; TAURINE;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ACETALDEHYDE; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TAURINE;

RATTUS;

EID: 33947225047     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2006.09.016     Document Type: Article

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