Chronic treatment with ascorbic acid enhances cortical spreading depression in developing well-nourished and malnourished rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 496, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 191-194

  Monte Guedes, Cinthia K R ^a   Alves, Erica V S ^a   Viana da Silva, Eveline ^a   Guedes, Rubem C A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Brain development; Cortical spreading depression; Malnutrition; Prooxidants; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALNUTRITION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; TREATMENT DURATION; VITAMIN INTAKE;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CORTICAL SPREADING DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; MALNUTRITION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 79955776766     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.04.025     Document Type: Article

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