Brain uptake of the drug of abuse γ-hydroxybutyric acid in rats

Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 212-218

  Roiko, Samuel A ^a   Felmlee, Melanie A ^a   Morris, Marilyn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSATE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG UPTAKE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SLEEP TIME; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; HUMANS; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 84455174556     PISSN: 00909556     EISSN: 1521009X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/dmd.111.041749     Document Type: Article

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