Castration attenuates myelin repair following lysolecithin induced demyelination in rat optic chiasm: An evaluation using visual evoked potential, marker genes expression and myelin staining

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1887-1895

  Sherafat, Mohammad Amin ^a   Javan, Mohammad ^a   Mozafari, Sabah ^a   Mirnajafi Zadeh, Javad ^a   Motamedi, Fereshteh ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Androgens; Castration; Endogenous neural stem cells; Lysolecithin; Myelin repair; Optic nerve and chiasm; Rat

Indexed keywords

LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; MYELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN REGION; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GFAP GENE; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; MARKER GENE; MBP GENE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NOGO A GENE; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OLIG2 GENE; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REMYELINIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASTRATION; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN SHEATH; OPTIC CHIASM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 80555123094     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: 15736903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11064-011-0510-6     Document Type: Article

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