Electroacupuncture pretreatment ameliorates hypergravity-induced impairment of learning and memory and apoptosis of hippocampal neurons in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 478, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 150-155

  Feng, Shufang ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Wang, Huaning ^a   Peng, Ye ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Lu, Yan ^a   Shi, Tianyao ^b   Xiong, Lize ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspase 3; Electroacupuncture; Hypergravity; Pretreatment

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASP3 PROTEIN, RAT;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GRAVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; ANIMAL; CENTRIFUGATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LEARNING DISORDERS; MEMORY DISORDERS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CASPASE 3; CENTRIFUGATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERGRAVITY; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953609578     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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