Aromatase expression in cultured fetal sheep astrocytes after nitrosative/oxidative damage

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 344, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 407-413

  Lepore, Gianluca ^a   Gadau, Sergio ^a   Peruffo, Antonella ^b   Mura, Arcadia ^a   Mura, Emilio ^a   Floris, Antonello ^a   Balzano, Francesca ^a   Zedda, Marco ^a   Farina, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Glial cell cultures; Neuroprotection; Oxidative injury; Sheep

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NITROSATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84942303190     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-011-1160-3     Document Type: Article

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