Electroacupuncture protected pyramidal cells in hippocampal CA1 region of vascular dementia rats by inhibiting the expression of P53 and Noxa

CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 599-604

  Zhu, Yanzhen ^a   Zeng, Yanjun ^b  

^a FUJIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Electroacupuncture; Noxa; P53; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN NOXA; PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 82355175436     PISSN: 17555930     EISSN: 17555949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-5949.2010.00192.x     Document Type: Article

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