Protective effects of leonurine in neonatal rat hypoxic cardiomyocytes and rat infarcted heart

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 696-703

  Liu, Xin Hua ^a   Xin, Hong ^a   Hou, Ai Jun ^a   Zhu, Yi Zhun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Catalase; Gene expression; Hypoxia; Ischaemic myocardium; Leonurine; Myocardial infarction; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CATALASE; FAS ANTIGEN; LEONURINE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY LIGATION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART PROTECTION; HYPOXIC CELL; LOW DRUG DOSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CELL HYPOXIA; CELLS, CULTURED; GALLIC ACID; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS;

EID: 67650735728     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2008.05135.x     Document Type: Article

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