Atorvastatin prevents early apoptosis after thoracic spinal cord contusion injury and promotes locomotion recovery

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 453, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-76

  Déry, Marc André ^a   Rousseau, Guy ^a   Benderdour, Mohamed ^a   Beaumont, Eric ^a  

^a Centre de Recherche Hopital Du Sacre Coeur de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Atorvastatin; Locomotion; Rats; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; CASPASE 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD CONTUSION INJURY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; FEMALE; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PYRROLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 60949098212     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.01.062     Document Type: Article

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