An 18-mer peptide fragment of prosaposin ameliorates place navigation disability, cortical infarction, and retrograde thalamic degeneration in rats with focal cerebral ischemia

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 298-306

  Igase, Keiji ^a   Tanaka, Junya ^a   Kumon, Yoshiaki ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a   Sadamoto, Yasutaka ^a   Maeda, Nobuji ^a   Sakaki, Saburo ^a   Sakanaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

18 mer peptide; Cortical neurons; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Morris water maze test; Neurotrophic action; Prosaposin

Indexed keywords

18 MER PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; PROSAPOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BINDING; MAZE TEST; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING;

EID: 0033373093     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004647-199903000-00008     Document Type: Article

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