"Nitro Compounds" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Compounds having the nitro group, -NO2, attached to carbon. When attached to nitrogen they are nitramines and attached to oxygen they are NITRATES.
| Descriptor ID |
D009574
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.640
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Nitro Compounds" by people in Profiles.
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Neurturin gene therapy improves motor function and prevents death of striatal neurons in a 3-nitropropionic acid rat model of Huntington's disease. Neurobiol Dis. 2007 May; 26(2):375-84.
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Animal models of Huntington's disease. ILAR J. 2007; 48(4):356-73.
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GFAP knockout mice have increased levels of GDNF that protect striatal neurons from metabolic and excitotoxic insults. J Comp Neurol. 2003 Jun 30; 461(3):307-16.
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Structural and functional neuroprotection in a rat model of Huntington's disease by viral gene transfer of GDNF. Exp Neurol. 2003 Jun; 181(2):213-23.
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Knockout of p75NTR does not alter the viability of striatal neurons following a metabolic or excitotoxic injury. J Mol Neurosci. 2003 Apr; 20(2):93-102.
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Excitotoxic and metabolic damage to the rodent striatum: role of the P75 neurotrophin receptor and glial progenitors. J Comp Neurol. 2002 Mar 18; 444(4):291-305.
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Behavioral and morphological comparison of two nonhuman primate models of Huntington's disease. Neurosurgery. 2002 Jan; 50(1):137-45; discussion 145-6.