Copper deficiency alters the neurochemical profile of developing rat brain

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 114-122

  Gybina, Anna A ^a   Tkac, Ivan ^a   Prohaska, Joseph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Copper deficient; Hippocampus; Metabolites; NMR; Rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE; ASCORBIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; COPPER; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; INOSITOL; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; TAURINE; CITRIC ACID; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER DEFICIENCY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; IRON DEFICIENCY; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RAT; TISSUE LEVEL; AGING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN LEVEL; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

RATTUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBELLUM; CITRIC ACID; COPPER; CREATINE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LACTIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOSPHOCREATINE; RATS;

EID: 66349111160     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/147683009X423265     Document Type: Article

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