Full-length article neuroprotective effect of sodium ferulate and signal transduction mechanisms in the aged rat hippocampus

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1399-1408

  Jin, Ying ^a   Yan, En Zhi ^a   Li, Xiao Ming ^a   Fan, Ying ^a   Zhao, Yan Jie ^a   Liu, Zhuo ^a   Liu, Wan Zhu ^a  

^a JINZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

C Jun N terminal kinases; Extracellular signal regulated kinase; Ferulic acid; Interleukin 1 ; Proto oncogene proteins c akt

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTEGRIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; FERULIC ACID; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 4; PROTEIN KINASE B; S6 KINASE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COUMARIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; SCAVENGER;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIET; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NEUROPROTECTION; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL SHAPE; COUMARIC ACIDS; DIET; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 64549094253     PISSN: 16714083     EISSN: 17457254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7254.2008.00848.x     Document Type: Article

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