Effects of acute exposure to aluminum on blood-brain barrier and the protection of zinc

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 445, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-46

  Song, Yang ^a   Xue, Yixue ^a   Liu, Xin ^a   Wang, Ping ^a   Liu, Libo ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Blood brain barrier; F actin; Occludin; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; F ACTIN; OCCLUDIN; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CAPILLARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ALUMINUM; ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PERMEABILITY; RATS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

EID: 52949111481     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.08.081     Document Type: Article

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