Chinese medicine Nao-Shuan-Tong attenuates cerebral ischemic injury by inhibiting apoptosis in a rat model of stroke

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 174-181

  Xiang, Jun ^a   Tang, Yu Ping ^a   Wu, Ping ^a   Gao, Jun Peng ^a   Cai, Ding Fang ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax Bcl 2; Caspases; Cerebral ischemia; Nao Shuan Tong

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CHINESE DRUG; CURCUMA WENYUJIN EXTRACT; DNA; GASTRODIA ELATA EXTRACT; NAO SHUAN TONG; PAEONIA LACTIFLORA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; RHAPONTICUM UNIFLOROUM EXTRACT; TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURCUMA WENYUJIN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; RHAPONTICUM UNIFLOROUM; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA; TYPHACEAE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STROKE;

RATTUS;

EID: 77955329651     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.06.021     Document Type: Article

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