Signal transducers and activators of transcription: STATs-mediated mitochondrial neuroprotection

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1853-1861

  Lin, Hung Wen ^a   Thompson, John W ^a   Morris, Kahlilia C ^a   Perez Pinzon, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X; PROTEIN KINASE C EPSILON; STAT PROTEIN; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL SURVIVAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MITOCHONDRION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MITOCHONDRIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79954579966     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2010.3467     Document Type: Review

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