Large litters rearing changes brain expression of GLUT3 and acetylcholinesterase activity in adult rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 525, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-38

  de Vasconcelos, Vivian Sarmento ^a   Machado, Sonia Salgueiro ^b   Guedes, Rubem Carlos Araújo ^c   Bandeira, Bruno Carneiro ^a   Ximenes Da Silva, Adriana ^a  

^a Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Brain metabolism; Glucose transporter; GLUT3; Malnutrition

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOMOGENATE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SUCKING;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 3; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84865336331     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.07.054     Document Type: Article

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