Effect of 17β-estradiol on functional outcome, release of cytokines, astrocyte reactivity and inflammatory spreading after spinal cord injury in male rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1203, Issue , 2008, Pages 177-188

  Ritz, Marie Françoise ^a   Hausmann, Oliver N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Klinik St Anna   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

17 estradiol; Astrogliosis; Functional recovery; Inflammation; Neuroprotection

Indexed keywords

CHLORDANE; ESTRADIOL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; VIMENTIN; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG EFFECT; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 41249090606     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.01.091     Document Type: Article

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