The effects of l-arginine on the hippocampus of male rat fetuses under maternal stress

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-12

  Mahmoudi, Reza ^a   Enant, Elham ^a   Delaviz, Hamdollah ^a   Rad, Parastou ^a   Roozbehi, Amrollah ^a   Barmak, Mehrzad Jafari ^a   Azizi, Arsalan ^a  

^a YASUJ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fetuses; Hippocampal formation; L arginine; Pregnancy; Rats; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DRUG ACTIVITY; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL STRESS; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

EID: 84953432756     PISSN: 2008126X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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