Peripheral ammonia as a mediator of methamphetamine neurotoxicity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 13155-13163

  Halpin, Laura E ^a   Yamamoto, Bryan K ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (4 AMINOPHENYL) 4 METHYL 7, 8 METHYLENEDIOXY 5H 2, 3 BENZODIAZEPINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMMONIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; LACTULOSE; METHAMPHETAMINE; MONOAMINE; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPERTHERMIA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICRODIALYSIS; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; AMMONIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BENZODIAZEPINES; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEVER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LACTULOSE; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHAMPHETAMINE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866411767     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2530-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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