Effect of berberine and Berberis aetnensis C. Presl. alkaloid extract on glutamate-evoked tissue transglutaminase up-regulation in astroglial cell cultures

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 816-820

  Campisi, Agata ^a   Acquaviva, Rosaria ^a   Mastrojeni, Silvana ^a   Raciti, Giuseppina ^a   Vanella, Angelo ^a   De Pasquale, Rita ^b   Puglisi, Salvatore ^a   Iauk, Liliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

astrocytes; berberine; Berberis aetnensis C. Presl.; excitotoxicity; glutamate; tissue transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; BERBAMINE; BERBERINE; BERBERIS AETNENSIS EXTRACT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; JATRORRHIZINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; OXYACANTHINE; PALMATINE; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ISOLATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME RELEASE; EXCITOTOXICITY; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GLIA CELL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RAT;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BERBERINE; BERBERIS; CELLS, CULTURED; GLUTAMIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT ROOTS; RATS; SICILY; TRANSGLUTAMINASES; UP-REGULATION;

BERBERIS; RATTUS;

EID: 79957868177     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3340     Document Type: Article

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