Dietary tryptophan restriction in rats triggers astrocyte cytoskeletal hypertrophy in hippocampus and amygdala

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 450, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 242-245

  Zhang, Limei ^a   Corona Morales, Aleph A ^a   Vega González, Arturo ^a   García Estrada, Joaquín ^b   Escobar, Alfonso ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA DE OCCIDENTE   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Astrocyte activation; GFAP; Glial reactivity; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN ANTIBODY; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITIC SPINE; DEPRESSION; DIET RESTRICTION; GLIA CELL; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTROPHY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MAIZE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SEROTONIN METABOLISM; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CELL SHAPE; CYTOSKELETON; FOOD, FORMULATED; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 58149459566     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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