Taurine and its neuroprotective role

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 775, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-27

  Kumari, Neeta ^a   Prentice, Howard ^a   Wu, Jang Yen ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 6; CALCIUM; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; TAURINE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; TAURINE RECEPTOR;

ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; EPILEPSY; EXCITOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MITOCHONDRION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; TAURINE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878802658     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6130-2_2     Document Type: Article

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