Acupuncture attenuates neuronal cell death in middle cerebral artery occlusion model of focal ischemia

Neurological Research

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL.1, 2010, Pages

  Kang, Kyoung Ah ^a   Shin, Eun Sim ^a   Hur, Jinyoung ^b   Hasan, Mohmmad Rakibul ^c   Lee, Hyejung ^a   Park, Hi Joon ^a   Park, Hun Kuk ^b   Kim, Youn Jung ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Infarction; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Neuronal cell death; Neuroprotection

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; RAT; REPERFUSION;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DEATH; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949445959     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164109X     Document Type: Article

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