Melanocortin 4 receptor activation protects against testicular ischemia-reperfusion injury by triggering the cholinergic antiinflammatory pathway

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3852-3861

  Minutoli, Letteria ^a   Bitto, Alessandra ^a   Squadrito, Francesco ^a   Irrera, Natasha ^a   Rinaldi, Mariagrazia ^a   Nicotina, Piero Antonio ^a   Arena, Salvatore ^a   Magno, Carlo ^a   Marini, Herbert ^a   Spaccapelo, Luca ^b   Ottani, Alessandra ^b   Giuliani, Daniela ^b   Romeo, Carmelo ^a   Guarini, Salvatore ^b   Antonuccio, Pietro ^a   Altavilla, Domenica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN DERIVATIVE; ALPHA INTERMEDIN[4 NORLEUCINE DEXTRO 7 PHENYLALANINE]; CHLORISONDAMINE; HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; HS 024; INTERLEUKIN 6; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR AGONIST; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS ISCHEMIA; TESTIS PROTECTION; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 80053151371     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1016     Document Type: Article

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