Liuwei Dihuang (LWDH), a Traditional Chinese Medicinal Formula, Protects against β-Amyloid Toxicity in Transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Sangha, Jatinder S ^a   Sun, Xiaoli ^b,c,d   Wally, Owen S D ^a   Zhang, Kaibin ^b,c   Ji, Xiuhong ^b   Wang, Zhimin ^c   Wang, Yanwen ^b,e   Zidichouski, Jeffrey ^b   Prithiviraj, Balakrishnan ^a   Zhang, Junzeng ^b,e  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; CHINESE DRUG; GALLIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; LIUWEI DIHUANG; PEONOL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT STRESS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARALYSIS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE; TOXICITY; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ETHANOL; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARALYSIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PICRATES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; WATER;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84865579788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043990     Document Type: Article

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