Nitric oxide system is involved in hypobaric hypoxia-induced oxidative stress in rat brain

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 222-232

  Maiti, Panchanan ^a   Singh, Shashi B ^a,b   Ilavazhagan, Govindasami ^a  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b Ministry of Defence   (India)

Author keywords

Free radicals; Hypoxia; Memory impairment; Neurodegeneration; Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS); Nitric oxide (NO); Reactive nitrogen species (RNS)

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECOMPRESSION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOBARISM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRESSURE CHAMBER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77950371128     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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