Inhibitory effects of alcohol on glucose transport across the blood-brain barrier leads to neurodegeneration: Preventive role of acetyl-L-carnitine

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 707-718

  Muneer, P M Abdul ^a   Alikunju, Saleena ^a   Szlachetka, Adam M ^a   Haorah, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetyl L carnitine; Blood brain barrier; Glucose transporter protein; Neurodegeneration; Tight junction; Trans endothelial electrical resistance

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CLAUDIN 5; EVANS BLUE; FLUORESCEIN SODIUM; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; LEVACECARNINE; OCCLUDIN; PROTEIN ZO1;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; METABOLIC INHIBITION; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETYLCARNITINE; ALCOHOLS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD-AQUEOUS BARRIER; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EVANS BLUE; FETUS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 1; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 79953657440     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-010-2076-4     Document Type: Article

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