Vitamin K has the potential to protect neurons from methylmercury-induced cell death In Vitro

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1052-1058

  Sakaue, Motoharu ^a,b   Mori, Naoko ^b   Okazaki, Maiko ^b   Kadowaki, Erika ^a   Kaneko, Takuya ^a   Hemmi, Natsuko ^a   Sekiguchi, Hitomi ^a   Maki, Takehiro ^a   Ozawa, Aisa ^a   Hara, Shuntaro ^c   Arishima, Kazuyoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Masako ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellar granule neurons; Diethyl maleate; Glutathione; Human neuroblastoma IMR 32 cells; L buthionine sulfoximine

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; FARNOQUINONE; GLUTATHIONE; MALEIC ACID DIETHYL ESTER; MENATETRENONE; METHYLMERCURY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PHYTOMENADIONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MERCURY POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VITAMIN K;

EID: 79955603781     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22630     Document Type: Article

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