Pretreatment with a traditional Chinese formula, Guanxin II, reduces cardiac apoptosis via the akt survival pathway in rats with myocardial ischemia

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-163

  Huang, Xi ^a   Zhang, Xue Ya ^b   Qin, Feng ^a   Wang, Xiao Yu ^b   Ren, Ping ^a   Liu, Zhao Qian ^c   Zhou, Hong Hao ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Akt signaling pathway; Antiapoptosis; Guanxin II; Myocardial ischemia

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC AGENT; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CYTOCHROME C; GUANXIN 2; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN KINASE B; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEEDING; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CYTOCHROMES C; CYTOSOL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77949426581     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.220.157     Document Type: Article

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