Administration of carnosine in the treatment of acute spinal cord injury

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1478-1489

  Di Paola, Rosanna ^a   Impellizzeri, Daniela ^b   Salinaro, Angela Trovato ^c,d   Mazzon, Emanuela ^a   Bellia, Francesco ^c   Cavallaro, Monia ^c,d   Cornelius, Carolin ^c,d   Vecchio, Graziella ^c   Calabrese, Vittorio ^c,d   Rizzarelli, Enrico ^c,d   Cuzzocrea, Salvatore ^a,b  

^a IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d Interuniversity Consortium INBB   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Carnosine; Inflammation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; CARNOSINE; CYTOKINE; FAS LIGAND; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; FAS ANTIGEN; PROTEIN S100B;

ANEURYSM CLIP; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MOUSE; MYELITIS; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE INJURY; APOPTOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY SEVERITY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; STAINING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CARNOSINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TYROSINE;

EID: 80054715568     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: 18732968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2011.07.074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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