Thyroid hormone increases astrocytic glutamate uptake and protects astrocytes and neurons against glutamate toxicity

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 86, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3117-3125

  Mendes de Aguiar, Cláudia Beatriz Nedel ^a   Alchini, Ricardo ^a   Decker, Helena ^a   Alvarez Silva, Marcio ^a   Tasca, Carla Inês ^a   Trentin, Andréa Goncalves ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; GLAST; GLT 1; Neuronal survival; T3

Indexed keywords

EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; THYROID HORMONE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL VIABILITY; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROENVIRONMENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 57049106240     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21755     Document Type: Article

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