The effect of Ginkgo biloba extract on 3-nitropropionic acid-induced neurotoxicity in rats

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 770-778

  Mahdy, Heba M ^a   Tadros, Mariane G ^a   Mohamed, Mohamed R ^b   Karim, Amr M ^b   Khalifa, Amani E ^a  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

3 NP; Bcl xl; GAPDH; Ginkgo biloba; Huntington's disease; PPI

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; APOPTOSIS REPRESSOR WITH CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALONALDEHYDE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL XL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ENERGY METABOLISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TREATMENT DURATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; GINKGO BILOBA; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTOXINS; NITRO COMPOUNDS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROPIONATES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; GINKGO BILOBA; RATTUS;

EID: 80053376706     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: 18729754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2011.07.012     Document Type: Article

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