Chronic dietary administration of valproic acid protects neurons of the rat nucleus basalis magnocellularis from ibotenic acid neurotoxicity

Neurotoxicity Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-132

  Eleuteri, Simona ^a   Monti, Barbara ^a   Brignani, Sara ^a   Contestabile, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons; Cholinergic cortical innervations; GABAergic neurons; Neuroprotection; Neurotoxicity; Valproic acid

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE H3; IBOTENIC ACID; VALPROIC ACID;

ACETYLATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPIGENETICS; EXCITOTOXICITY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 70349733198     PISSN: 10298428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12640-009-9013-5     Document Type: Article

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