Coumarin effects on amino acid levels in mice prefrontal cortex and hippocampus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 454, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-142

  Pereira, Elaine Cristina ^a   Lucetti, Daniel Luna ^a   Barbosa Filho, José Maria ^b   de Brito, Eliane Magalhães ^a   Monteiro, Valdécio Silvano ^a   Patrocínio, Manoel Cláudio Azevedo ^c   de Moura, Rebeca Ribeiro ^a   Leal, Luzia Kalyne Almeida Moreira ^a   Macedo, Danielle Silveira ^a   de Sousa, Francisca Cléa Florenço ^a   de Barros Viana, Glauce Socorro ^a   Vasconcelos, Silvânia Maria Mendes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^c Dr Jose Frota Hospital   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Coumarin; Hippocampus; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; COUMARIN; DIAZEPAM; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 62949220868     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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