L-Arginine administration during rat brain development facilitates spreading depression propagation: Evidence for a dose- and nutrition-dependent effect

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-80

  Maia, L M S S ^a   Amancio dos Santos, A ^a   Duda de Oliveira, D ^a   Angelim, M K C ^a   Germano, P C P ^a   Santos, S F ^a   Guedes, R C A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEEDING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NITRIC OXIDE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION;

RATTUS;

EID: 65349161580     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/147683009X423229     Document Type: Article

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