Thyroid hormones affect the level and activity of nitric oxide synthase in rat cerebral cortex during postnatal development

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 569-578

  Serfőző, Zoltán ^a   Kiss, Péter B ^a   Kukor, Zoltán ^b   Lontay, Beáta ^c   Palatka, Károly ^c   Varga, Vince ^d   Erdődi, Ferenc ^c   Elekes, Károly ^a  

^a BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Development; Nitric oxide synthase; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGININE CITRULLINE CONVERSION ASSAY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

RATTUS;

EID: 38949192504     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11064-007-9480-0     Document Type: Article

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