Electro-acupuncture protects against hypoxic-ischemic brain-damaged immature rat via hydrogen sulfide as a possible mediator

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 485, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 74-78

  Liu, Ying ^a   Zou, Li Ping ^a   Du, Jun Bao ^b   Wong, Virginia ^c  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cystathionine synthase; Electro acupuncture; Hydrogen sulfide; Hypoxic ischemic brain damage

Indexed keywords

CYSTATHIONINE BETA SYNTHASE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; HYDROXYLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; HYPOXIC ISCHEMI BRAIN DAMAGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 77957233842     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.08.068     Document Type: Article

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