Metallothionein I and II mitigate age-dependent secondary brain injury

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 303-314

  Natale, JoAnne E ^a,b   Knight, Jay Brandon ^a   Cheng, Ying ^a   Rome, Justin E ^a   Gallo, Vittorio ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Degeneration; Development; Injury; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Oxidation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN I; METALLOTHIONEIN II; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; THALAMUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL COUNT; DECEREBRATE STATE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENICULATE BODIES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 8444234002     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.20265     Document Type: Article

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