Beneficial effect of agmatine in the acute phase of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in iNOS-/- Knockout mice

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 309-318

  Stevanovic, Ivana ^a   Ninkovic, Milica ^a   Stojanovic, Ivana ^b   Ljubisavljevic, Srdjan ^b,c   Stojnev, Slavica ^b   Bokonjic, Dubravko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^c Clinical Centre Nis   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Agmatine; Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; GFAP; Oxidative stress; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; FREUND ADJUVANT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REMISSION; WILD TYPE;

AGMATINE; EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; GFAP; OXIDATIVE STRESS; TRANSFERRIN;

AGMATINE; ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RECEPTORS, TRANSFERRIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SUPEROXIDES;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84886141697     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: 18727786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2013.09.006     Document Type: Article

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