Premarin stimulates estrogen receptor-α to protect against traumatic brain injury in male rats

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3097-3106

  Chen, Sheng Hsien ^a,b,c   Chang, Chia Yu ^a,b   Chang, Hsiu Kang ^d   Chen, Wei Chun ^d   Lin, Mao Tsun ^a   Wang, Jhi Joung ^a   Chen, Jeffrey Cheng Yu ^f   Chang, Fong Ming ^e  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Stem Cell Research Center   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Conjugated; Estrogen; In flammation; Neurogenesis; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CASPASE 3; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FULVESTRANT; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN; ESTROGEN;

ANESTHESIA; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP); MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 73349089967     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181bc7986     Document Type: Article

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