Lipoic acid inhibits caspase-dependent and -independent cell death pathways and is neuroprotective against hippocampal damage after pilocarpine-induced seizures

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 531-536

  Santos, Pauline Sousa Dos ^a   Feitosa, Chistiane Mendes ^a   Saldanha, Gláucio Barros ^b   Tomé, Adriana Da Rocha ^c   Feng, Dejiang ^d   De Freitas, Rivelilson Mendes ^a,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b Clinical Pathology Laboratory   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Lipoic acid; Apoptosis; Caspase 3; Hippocampus; Seizures

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; CASPASE 3; CYTOCHROME C; PILOCARPINE; THIOCTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASES; CELL DEATH; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; THIOCTIC ACID;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 78449252641     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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