Reduced sulfhydryl groups of rat neurons, glial cells and neurofilaments
Mäkinen, A.; Savolainen, H.; Lehtonen, E.; Vainio, H.
Research Communications in Chemical Pathology and Pharmacology 16(3): 577-580
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0034-5164 PMID: 847306 Document Number: 115328
Reactive thiol groups were measured in neurons glial cells and neurofilaments of rat central nervous system. Neurons displayed 27 nmol/mg prot. reactive SH-groups while the figures for glia and neurofilaments were 36.5 and 44 nmol, respectively. For comparison, brain and spinal cord homogenates contained 3.2 and 6.9 nmol/mg of prot. extractable free thiol residues.