Human FGF-1 gene delivery protects against quinolinateinduced striatal and hippocampal injury in neonatal rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2490-2499

  Hossain, Mir Ahamed ^a,b   Fielding, Kevin E ^b   Trescher, William H ^a,b   Ho, Tang ^c   Wilson, Mary Ann ^a,b   Laterra, John ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Excitotoxicity; Gene therapy; Neuroprotection; Nitric oxide synthase (NOS); NMDA

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; QUINOLINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE TARGETING; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN INJURIES; CELLS, CULTURED; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; QUINOLINIC ACID; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031927375     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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