Effects of valproic acid, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, on improvement of locomotor function in rat spinal cord injury based on epigenetic science

Iranian Biomedical Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 90-100

  Abdanipour, Alireza ^a,c   Schluesener, Hermann J ^b   Tiraihi, Taki ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Tuebingen University   (Germany)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Inflammation; Valproic acid (VPA)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTROPIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BDNF GENE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GDNF GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN FIELD TEST; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RATING SCALE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONTUSIONS; CYTOKINES; ECTODYSPLASINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; LAMINECTOMY; MACROPHAGES; MICROGLIA; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84865188253     PISSN: 1028852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6091/ibj.1060.2012     Document Type: Article

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