Progesterone treatment alters neurotrophin/proneurotrophin balance and receptor expression in rats with traumatic brain injury

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 115-126

  Cekic, Milos ^a   Johnson, Sarah J ^a   Bhatt, Vinay H ^a   Stein, Donald G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; brain derived growth factor (BDNF); frontal cortex; nerve growth factor (NGF); progesterone; proneurotrophins; recovery of function; traumatic brain injury; TrkA

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CASPASE 3; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR P75; PROGESTERONE; PRONEUROTROPHIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A; SORTILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTUSION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84859316738     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2011-0628     Document Type: Article

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