Exogenous agmatine has neuroprotective effects against restraint-induced structural changes in the rat brain

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1320-1332

  Zhu, Meng Yang ^a   Wang, Wei Ping ^b   Cai, Zheng Wei ^c   Regunathan, Soundar ^c   Ordway, Gregory ^a  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

tubulin III; Agmatine; Arginine decarboxylase; Hippocampus; Prefrontal cortex; Repeated restraint stress

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGMATINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS;

EID: 40949127037     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06104.x     Document Type: Article

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