Glycyrrhizin reduces secondary inflammatory process after spinal cord compression injury in mice

Shock

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 367-375

  Genovese, Tiziana ^a   Menegazzi, Marta ^b   Mazzon, Emanuela ^a   Crisafulli, Concetta ^c   Di Paola, Rosanna ^a   Dal Bosco, Martina ^b   Zou, Zhenzhen ^d   Suzuki, Hisanori ^b   Cuzzocrea, Salvatore ^a,c  

^a IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d Minophagen Pharmaceutical Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Glycyrrhizin; Nuclear factor B; Secondary damage; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; BIOTIN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLY(ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSE); PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DURA MATER; EDEMA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAINING; TISSUE INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TYROSINE;

EID: 64849087589     PISSN: 10732322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SHK.0b013e3181833b08     Document Type: Article

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