Scavenging of blood glutamate for enhancing brain-to-blood glutamate efflux

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 305-310

  Li, Yunhong ^a   Hou, Xiaolin ^a   Qi, Qi ^a   Wang, Le ^a   Luo, Lan ^b   Yang, Shaoqi ^a   Zhang, Yumei ^a   Miao, Zhenhua ^a   Zhang, Yanli ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Wang, Hongyan ^a   Huang, Weidong ^a   Wang, Zhenhai ^a   Shen, Ying ^c   Wang, Yin ^a  

^a NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Glutamate scavenging; Lipoamide; Pyruvate oxaloacetate

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GLUTAMIC ACID; OXALOACETIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THIOCTIC ACID;

EID: 84893865926     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2013.1793     Document Type: Article

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