Neuroprotection with metformin and thymoquinone against ethanol-induced apoptotic neurodegeneration in prenatal rat cortical neurons

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ullah, Ikram ^a   Ullah, Najeeb ^a,b   Naseer, Muhammad Imran ^a,c   Lee, Hae Young ^a   Kim, Myeong O K ^a  

^a Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

^b KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CALCIUM; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CYTOCHROME C; METFORMIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE 1; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; THYMOQUINONE; 4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; 5,5',6,6' TETRACHLORO 1,1',3,3' TETRAETHYLBENZIMIDAZOLOCARBOCYANINE; 5,5',6,6'-TETRACHLORO-1,1',3,3'-TETRAETHYLBENZIMIDAZOLOCARBOCYANINE; ADPRT PROTEIN, RAT; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; BENZOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; CARBOCYANINE; CASPASE; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORO JADE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREGNANCY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BENZIMIDAZOLES; BENZOQUINONES; CALCIUM; CARBOCYANINES; CASPASES; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOCHROMES C; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ETHANOL; FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INDOLES; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; METFORMIN; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASES; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84855906102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-11     Document Type: Article

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