Chitooligosaccharides protect cultured hippocampal neurons against glutamate-induced neurotoxicity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 444, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 270-274

  Zhou, Songlin ^a   Yang, Yumin ^a   Gu, Xiaosong ^a   Ding, Fei ^a  

^a NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cell apoptosis; Chitooligosaccharides; Glutamate; Hippocampal neurons; Neuroprotection

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CHITOOLIGOSACCHARIDE DERIVATIVE; CHITOSAN; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM; CASPASE 3; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHITOSAN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 52249099467     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.08.040     Document Type: Article

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