Changes of Amino Acid Levels and Aspartate Distribution in the Cervical Spinal Cord After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 285-293

  Watanabe, M ^a   Fujimura, Y ^a   Nakamura, M ^a   Yato, Y ^a   Ohta, K ^a   Okai, H ^a   Ogawa, Y ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aspartate immunoreactivity; excitatory amino acids; fluorescence microphotometry; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992641926     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.1998.15.285     Document Type: Article

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