A multivariate analysis of the effects of aging on glutamate, GABA and arginine metabolites in the rat vestibular nucleus

Hearing Research

Volumn 269, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 122-133

  Liu, Ping ^a   Zhang, Hu ^a   Devaraj, Renuka ^a   Ganesalingam, Ganes S ^b   Smith, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AGMATINE; ARGININE; CITRULLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; ORNITHINE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VALIDATION STUDY; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

AGING; ANIMALS; ARGININE; CEREBELLUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 77956338859     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.06.019     Document Type: Article

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