Berberine reduces the hypoxic-ischemic insult in rat pup brain

Acta Physiologica Hungarica

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-220

  Benaissa, F ^a   Mohseni Rad, H ^b   Rahimi Moghaddam, P ^a,b   Mahmoudian, Massoud ^a,b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anti stroke agent; Berberine; Brain edema; Brain injury; Hypoxic ischemic insult; Neuronal damage; Rat pups

Indexed keywords

BERBERINE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BREATHING; CAROTID ARTERY LIGATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUB; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SAMPLE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BERBERINE; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; STROKE;

EID: 65749111051     PISSN: 0231424X     EISSN: 15882683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/APhysiol.96.2009.2.6     Document Type: Article

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