NMDA inhibitors cause apoptosis of pyramidal neurons in mature piriform cortex: Evidence for a nitric oxide-mediated effect involving inhibitory interneurons

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1528-1537

  Zhou, Lijun ^a   Welsh, Annie M ^a   Chen, David ^a   Koliatsos, Vassilis E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitotoxicity; GABA; Glutamate; Limbic system; Neuronal cell death; Olfactory

Indexed keywords

3 BROMO 7 NITROINDAZOLE; CASPASE 3; DIZOCILPINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; INDAZOLES; INTERNEURONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34247590347     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2007.02.013     Document Type: Article

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