Delayed moderate hypothermia reduces calpain activity and breakdown of its substrate in experimental focal cerebral ischemia in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-20

  Liebetrau, Martin ^a   Burggraf, Dorothe ^a   Martens, Helge K ^a   Pichler, Mathias ^a   Hamann, Gerhard F ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calpain; Cerebral ischemia; Hypothermia; Immunohistochemistry; Middle cerebral artery occlusion

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0442276447     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.12.031     Document Type: Article

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