Glutamine synthetase becomes nitrated and its activity is reduced during repetitive seizure activity in the pentylentetrazole model of epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1733-1748

  Bidmon, Hans J ^a,d   Görg, Boris ^a   Palomero Gallagher, Nicola ^b   Schleicher, Axel ^a   Häussinger, Dieter ^a   Speckmann, Erwin J ^c   Zilles, Karl ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d C and O Vogt Institute of Brain Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Glutamate metabolism; HSP 27; Methionine sulfoximine; Nitrotyrosine; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPILEPSY; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NITRATION; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; ANIMAL; ASTROCYTE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HSP27 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 58149235281     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01642.x     Document Type: Article

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