Antioxidant activity in the newborn brain: A luciferase mouse model

Neonatology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-131

  Dohlen, Gaute ^a   Odland, Hans Henrik ^a   Carlsen, Harald ^b   Blomhoff, Rune ^b   Thaulow, Erik ^a   Saugstad, Ola Didrik ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Antioxidant responsive element; Electrophil responsive element; Gamma glutamylcysteine synthetase; Luciferase; Newborn mice; Nuclear factor kappaB (NF B); Superoxide dismutase; Transgene

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHILIC STRESS; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC MODEL; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MONITORING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UTERUS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; LUCIFERASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; NF-KAPPA B; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 38949212636     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000107777     Document Type: Article

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