L-carnitine pre-treatment reduces apoptotic cell death in seven-day-old rats hypoxia ischemia

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 817-824

  Türkyilmaz, Canan ^a   Türkyilmaz, Zafer ^a   Önal, Esra ^a   Atalay, Yildiz ^a   Soylemezogronlu, Figen ^b   Celasun, Bülent ^c  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; carnitine; cortex; hippocampus; hypoxia ischemia; newborn rat; regional; striatum

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; CARNITINE; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 78650272604     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2010-0567     Document Type: Article

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