The anticonvulsant and neuroprotective effects of Baicalin on pilocarpine-induced epileptic model in rats

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1670-1680

  Liu, Yang Feng ^a,b   Gao, Fei ^a   Li, Xiao Wei ^a   Jia, Rui Hua ^a   Meng, Xian Dong ^a   Zhao, Rui ^a   Jing, Yun Yun ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Jiang, Wen ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b People's Liberation Army No 451 Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Baicalin; Epilepsy; Neuronal loss; Neuroprotection; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

BAICALIN; CASPASE 3; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE; NITRATE; PILOCARPINE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LATENT PERIOD; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MORTALITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; APOPTOSIS; EPILEPSY; FLAVONOIDS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PILOCARPINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

RATTUS; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS;

EID: 84864329642     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: 15736903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11064-012-0771-8     Document Type: Article

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