Estrone is neuroprotective in rats after traumatic brain injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2209-2219

  Gatson, Joshua W ^a   Liu, Ming Mei ^a   Abdelfattah, Kareem ^a   Wigginton, Jane G ^a   Smith, Scott ^a   Wolf, Steven ^a   Simpkins, James W ^b   Minei, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

brain derived neurotrophic factor; estrone; extracellular signal regulated kinase (erk); traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORN OIL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; ESTRONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIOTOMY; DRUG MECHANISM; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; ESTRONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84865254286     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2011.2274     Document Type: Article

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