Nordihydroguaiaretic acid activates the antioxidant pathway Nrf2/HO-1 and protects cerebellar granule neurons against oxidative stress

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 447, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 167-171

  Guzmán Beltrán, Silvia ^a   Espada, Sandra ^b   Orozco Ibarra, Marisol ^a   Pedraza Chaverri, José ^a   Cuadrado, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

Author keywords

3 Nitropropionic acid; Antioxidant response elements; Heme oxygenase 1; NDGA; Neuroprotection; Nrf2

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; ANTIOXIDANT; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESOPORPHYRIN TIN; MESSENGER RNA; NORDIHYDROGUAIARETIC ACID; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DEATH; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIOXIDANTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESOPORPHYRINS; NEURONS; NF-E2-RELATED FACTOR 2; NITRO COMPOUNDS; NORDIHYDROGUAIARETIC ACID; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55249118563     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.09.079     Document Type: Article

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