Assessment of 3-nitropropionic acid-evoked peripheral neuropathy in rats: Neuroprotective effects of acetyl-l-carnitine and resveratrol

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 480, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-121

  Binienda, Zbigniew K ^a   Beaudoin, Micheal A ^b   Gough, Bobby ^a   Ali, Syed F ^a   Virmani, Ashraf ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Z Tech Corporation   (United States)

^c Sigma Tau SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 Nitropropionic acid; Acetyl l carnitine; Neuropathy; Resveratrol

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; LEVACECARNINE; RESVERATROL; 3-NITROPROPIONIC ACID; ACETYLCARNITINE; ANTIOXIDANT; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; NITRO DERIVATIVE; POLLUTANT; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; STILBENE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EXCITOTOXICITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POLLUTANT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOXICITY;

ACETYLCARNITINE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AXONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; STILBENES; PROPIONATES;

EID: 77954537252     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.06.020     Document Type: Article

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