Cerebral neurons express interleukin-6 after transient forebrain ischemia in gerbils

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-120

  Suzuki, Shigeaki ^a   Tanaka, Kortaro ^a   Nagata, Eiichiro ^a   Ito, Daisuke ^a   Dembo, Tomohisa ^a   Fukuuchi, Yasuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Gerbil; Hippocampus; Immunohistochemistry; Interleukin 6; Ischemia; Neuron; Western blot

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GERBIL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-6; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033525574     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00051-8     Document Type: Article

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