Temporospatial expression and cellular localization of glutamine synthetase following traumatic spinal cord injury in adult rats

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1431-1436

  Liu, Chunxing ^a   Wu, Wenjie ^b   Zhang, Bin ^c,d   Xiang, Jie ^d   Zou, Jian ^c,d  

^a Huadong Sanitarium ^*  (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Wuxi Clinical Science Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Glial cells; Glutamate; Glutamine synthetase; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

RATTUS;

EID: 84876012910     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2013.1383     Document Type: Article

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