Effects of a traditional Chinese medicine, Qing Nao Yi Zhi Fang, on glutamate excitotoxicity in rat fetal cerebral neuronal cells in primary culture

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-24

  Zhang, Junping ^a,e   Li, Ling ^b   Chen, Xiaoyu ^c   Zhang, Boli ^b   Wang, Yongyan ^d   Yamamoto, Kiyotaka ^e  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c Tianjin Hospital   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cerebral neuronal cells; Excitotoxicity; Glutamate; Traditional Chinese medicine; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE; EXCITOTOXIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE; PEROXIDASE; QING NAO YI ZHI FANG; STREPTAVIDIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAURINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL PROTECTION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; FETUS CELL; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SERUM; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINESTERASES; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FETUS; GLUTAMATES; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0034683215     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01311-2     Document Type: Article

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