<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF ECTOPEPTIDASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS USING ELECTROOSMOTIC PUSH-PULL PERFUSION COUPLED TO CAPILLARY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY:\r\nA COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH"^^ . "It has been known for over a century that the CA1 subregion of the hippocampus is more vulnerable than the CA3 to ischemic damage. While many studies have been conducted the exact mechanism is still unknown. Ectopeptidases are membrane-bound enzymes whose catalytic domains face the extracellular space. Traditionally, their role was believed to only involve clearance of active peptides but recent studies have shown that they play an important role in regulating peptide activity. Here we report the quantitative measurement of ectopeptidase activity using electroosmotic push-pull perfusion coupled to offline capillary liquid chromatography. This method revealed a three-fold higher aminopeptidase activity hydrolyzing the neuroprotective peptide Leu-enkephalin in the CA1 region of the rat hippocampus. Inhibition of the higher aminopeptidase activity in the CA1 selectively protects this region from ischemic damage due to oxygen-glucose deprivation. This is the first report of spatially-resolved quantitative measurements of enzyme activity in intact tissue using native substrates. The studies in this thesis combine both computational and experimental approaches to tackle a longstanding question in neuroscience."^^ . "2018-01-31" . . . . . . . . "Yangguang"^^ . "Ou"^^ . "Yangguang Ou"^^ . . . . . . "QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF ECTOPEPTIDASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS USING ELECTROOSMOTIC PUSH-PULL PERFUSION COUPLED TO CAPILLARY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY:\r\nA COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH (PDF)"^^ . . . "Yangguang Ou_dissertation_2017_final.pdf"^^ . . . "QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF ECTOPEPTIDASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS USING ELECTROOSMOTIC PUSH-PULL PERFUSION COUPLED TO CAPILLARY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY:\r\nA COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF ECTOPEPTIDASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS USING ELECTROOSMOTIC PUSH-PULL PERFUSION COUPLED TO CAPILLARY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY:\r\nA COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF ECTOPEPTIDASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS USING ELECTROOSMOTIC PUSH-PULL PERFUSION COUPLED TO CAPILLARY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY:\r\nA COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF ECTOPEPTIDASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS USING ELECTROOSMOTIC PUSH-PULL PERFUSION COUPLED TO CAPILLARY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY:\r\nA COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . . "QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF ECTOPEPTIDASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS USING ELECTROOSMOTIC PUSH-PULL PERFUSION COUPLED TO CAPILLARY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY:\r\nA COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #33322 \n\nQUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF ECTOPEPTIDASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS USING ELECTROOSMOTIC PUSH-PULL PERFUSION COUPLED TO CAPILLARY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY: \nA COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH\n\n" . "text/html" . .