Tryptophan administration induces oxidative stress in brain cortex of rats

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 221-233

  Feksa, Luciane Rosa ^a,b   Latini, Alexandra ^c   Rech, Virgínia Cielo ^a   Feksa, Patrícia Bartels ^a   Koch, Gustavo Duarte Waltereith ^a   Amaral, Maria Fernanda Arevalo ^a   Leipnitz, Guilhian ^a   Dutra Filho, Carlos Severo ^a   Wajner, Moacir ^a   Wannmacher, Clóvis Milton Duval ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEEVALE   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antioxidant defenses; Hypertryptophanemia; Oxidative stress; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

2',7' DIHYDRODICHLOROFLUORESCEIN; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BUFFER; CATALASE; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAURINE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC; CATALASE; CELL DEATH; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAURINE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; TRYPTOPHAN;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 44449136363     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-008-9087-4     Document Type: Article

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