Leonurine protects middle cerebral artery occluded rats through antioxidant effect and regulation of mitochondrial function

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2661-2668

  Loh, Kok Poh ^a,b   Qi, Jia ^a   Tan, Benny Kwong Huat ^b   Liu, Xin Hua ^a   Wei, Bang Guo ^a   Zhu, Yi Zhun ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

antioxidant; ischemia; Leonurine; MCAO

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LEONURINE; MALONALDEHYDE; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATION CONTROL; STAINING; STROKE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAIN; GALLIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, ANIMAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 78149335989     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.589895     Document Type: Article

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