Citicoline and postconditioning provides neuroprotection in a rat model of ischemic spinal cord injury

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1033-1042

  Turkkan, Alper ^a   Alkan, Tulin ^a   Goren, Bulent ^a   Kocaeli, Hasan ^a   Akar, Eylem ^a   Korfali, Ender ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Citicoline; Postconditioning; Spinal cord ischemia

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CITICOLINE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ARCH; APOPTOSIS; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4-KINASE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE CHOLINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA;

EID: 77953020224     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-010-0598-5     Document Type: Article

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