Acetyl-L-carnitine-mediated neuroprotection during hypoxia is attributed to ERK1/2-Nrf2-regulated mitochondrial biosynthesis

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 723-736

  Hota, Kalpana Barhwal ^a   Hota, Sunil Kumar ^a   Chaurasia, Om Prakash ^a   Singh, Shashi Bala ^a  

^a Ministry of Defence   (India)

Author keywords

Acetyl L carnitine; Calcium; Hypoxia; Mitochondrial biogenesis; Nuclear factor erythroid 2 related factor 2

Indexed keywords

LEVACECARNINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXCITOTOXICITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMIDITY; HYPOXIA; MALE; MITOCHONDRION BIOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCARNITINE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MEMORY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NF-E2-RELATED FACTOR 2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84857659914     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20934     Document Type: Article

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