Lycium barbarum polysaccharides reduce neuronal damage, blood-retinal barrier disruption and oxidative stress in retinal ischemia/reperfusion injury

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Li, Suk Yee ^a   Yang, Di ^a   Yeung, Chung Man ^a   Yu, Wing Yan ^a   Chang, Raymond Chuen Chung ^a   So, Kwok Fai ^a   Wong, David ^a,b   Lo, Amy C Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; AQUAPORIN 4; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LYCIUM BARBARUM EXTRACT; POLY(ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSE); POLYSACCHARIDE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LYCIUM BARBARUM POLYSACCHARIDE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE DISRUPTION; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETINA ISCHEMIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; LYCIUM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

LYCIUM BARBARUM; MUS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-RETINAL BARRIER; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; LYCIUM; MICE; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETINA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79551517589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016380     Document Type: Article

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