Behavioral efficacy of posttraumatic calpain inhibition is not accompanied by reduced spectrin proteolysis, cortical lesion, or apoptosis

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-73

  Saatman, Kathryn E ^a   Zhang, Chen ^a   Bartus, Raymond T ^b   McIntosh, Tracy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ALKERMES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium activated protease; Cytoskeleton; Histology; Rat; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CALPASTATIN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECTRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT;

EID: 0033985303     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004647-200001000-00010     Document Type: Article

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