Early malnutrition, but not age, modulates in the rat the l-Arginine facilitating effect on cortical spreading depression

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 447, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-30

  Frazão, Marília Ferreira ^a   Silva de Seixas Maia, Luciana Maria ^a   Guedes, Rubem Carlos Araújo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Age; Arginine; Brain development; Cortical spreading depression; Malnutrition; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ARGININE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ARGININE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALNUTRITION; RATS; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION;

EID: 54249124515     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.09.068     Document Type: Article

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