CDP-choline (citicoline) attenuates brain damage in a rat model of birth asphyxia

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 389-397

  Fiedorowicz, Michał ^a   Makarewicz, Dorota ^a   Stańczak Mrozek, Kinga I ^a   Grieb, Paweł ^a  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bcl 2; Birth hypoxia ischemia; Caspase 3; CDP choline; Heat shock protein 70; Neuroprotection

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FODRIN; CASPASE 3; CITICOLINE; FODRIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; PROTEIN BCL 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GAS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PROTECTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUP (RODENT); RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; UNDERWEIGHT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 3; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE CHOLINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 52949121779     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 00651400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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