Ferulic acid reduces cerebral infarct through its antioxidative and anti-Inflammatory effects following transient focal cerebral ischemia in rats

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1105-1119

  Cheng, Chin Yi ^a   Ho, Tin Yun ^a   Lee, E Jian ^c   Su, Shan Yu ^a   Tang, Nou Ying ^a   Hsieh, Ching Liang ^a,b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cerebral Infarct; Ferulic Acid; Intercellular Adhesion Molecule 1; Myeloperoxidase; Nuclear Factor B; Superoxide Radicals

Indexed keywords

FERULIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; MYELOPEROXIDASE; SUPEROXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COUMARIC ACIDS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; PEROXIDASE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 57349101686     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X08006570     Document Type: Article

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