Relationships between large neutral amino acid levels in plasma, cerebrospinal fluid, brain microdialysate and brain tissue in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 1334, Issue , 2010, Pages 45-57

  Bongiovanni, Rodolfo ^a   Kirkbride, Bobbie ^a   Newbould, Erica ^a   Durkalski, Valerie ^a   Jaskiw, George E ^a,b  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Phenylalanine; Transport; Tryptophan; Tyrosine; Valine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BRAIN PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; TYROSINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; TISSUE LEVEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

AMINO ACIDS, NEUTRAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 77952106838     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.03.111     Document Type: Article

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