Anti-apoptotic and neuroprotective effects of Tetramethylpyrazine following subarachnoid hemorrhage in rats

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 22-30

  Gao, Cheng ^a   Liu, Xiangzhen ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Shi, Huaizhang ^a   Zhao, Zhenhuan ^a   Chen, Huirong ^a   Zhao, Shiguang ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Caspase 3; Cerebral vasospasm; Early brain injury; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Tetramethylpyrazine

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; TETRAMETHYLPYRAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; WATER CONTENT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; CASPASE 3; CEREBRAL CORTEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PYRAZINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 46749111021     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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