Activation of Akt/GSK-3beta/beta-catenin signaling pathway is involved in survival of neurons after traumatic brain injury in rats

Neurological Research

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 400-407

  Zhao, Shangfeng ^a   Fu, Jidi ^a   Liu, Xiangrong ^b   Wang, Tony ^c   Zhang, Jialiang ^a   Zhao, Yuanli ^d  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Akt; Beta catenin; GSK 3beta; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BETA CATENIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL SURVIVAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84863803820     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132812Y.0000000025     Document Type: Article

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