Acute seizure activity promotes lipid peroxidation, increased nitrite levels and adaptive pathways against oxidative stress in the frontal cortex and striatum

Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 130-137

  Nobre Jr , Hélio Vitoriano ^a   Fonteles, Marta Maria De França ^a   De Freitas, Rivelilson Mendes De ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Catalase; Frontal cortex; Glutathione reduced; Lipid peroxidation; Nitrite content; Striatum; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; NITRITE; PILOCARPINE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FRONTAL CORTEX; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RAT; SEIZURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CATALASE; CORPUS STRIATUM; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUTATHIONE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NITRITES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 77953456203     PISSN: 19420900     EISSN: 19420994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/oxim.2.3.8488     Document Type: Article

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