The Akt Pathway Is Involved in Rapid Ischemic Tolerance in Focal Ischemia in Rats

Translational Stroke Research

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 202-209

  Gao, Xuwen ^a   Zhang, Hanfeng ^a   Steinberg, Gary ^a   Zhao, Heng ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Akt; Cerebral ischemia; Focal ischemia; Ischemic tolerance; Neuroprotection; Rapid preconditioning

Indexed keywords

2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE 1; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; STROKE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 77954954805     PISSN: 18684483     EISSN: 1868601X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12975-010-0017-5     Document Type: Article

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