Adult naked mole-rat brain retains the NMDA receptor subunit GluN2D associated with hypoxia tolerance in neonatal mammals

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 506, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 342-345

  Peterson, Bethany L ^a   Park, Thomas J ^a   Larson, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; Naked mole rat; NMDA; Western blot

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2D; OXYGEN;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLE RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 84655161902     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.11.042     Document Type: Article

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