Inhibition of caspase-3 activation and apoptosis is involved in 3-nitropropionic acid-induced ischemic tolerance to transient focal cerebral ischemia in rats

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 299-305

  Zhu, Hong Can ^a   Gao, Xia Qun ^b   Xing, Ying ^b   Sun, Sheng Gang ^b   Li, Hong Ge ^b   Wang, Yun Fu ^b  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

3 Nitropropionic acid; Apoptosis; Caspase 3; Cerebral ischemic tolerance; Ischemic penumbra

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; BENZYLOXYCARBONYLASPARTYLGLUTAMYLVALYLASPARTYL FLUOROMETHYL KETONE; BIOTIN; CASPASE 3; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM; 3-NITROPROPIONIC ACID; CASP3 PROTEIN, RAT; CASPASE; DNA FRAGMENT; NEUROTOXIN; NITRO DERIVATIVE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REPERFUSION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MALE; NEUROTOXINS; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 21544445821     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/JMN:24:2:299     Document Type: Article

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