Genetic ablation of transcription repressor bach1 reduces neural tissue damage and improves locomotor function after spinal cord injury in mice

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-39

  Kanno, Haruo ^a,b   Ozawa, Hiroshi ^a   Dohi, Yoshihiro ^a   Sekiguchi, Akira ^a   Igarashi, Kazuhiko ^a   Itoi, Eiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization Sendai Nishitaga Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bach1; Heme oxygenase 1; Knock out mice; Oxidative stress; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

HEME OXYGENASE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR PROTEIN BACH1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE DELETION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRESSOR GENE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASPASE 3; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; HEME OXYGENASE-1; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 59849125389     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2008.0667     Document Type: Article

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