Effect of methylprednisolone on the activities of caspase-3, -6, -8 and -9 in rabbits with acute spinal cord injury

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-54

  Lin, Hong Sheng ^a,b   Ji, Zhi Sheng ^a,b   Zheng, Li Heng ^c   Guo, Guo Qing ^b   Chen, Biao ^a,b   Wu, Hao ^a,b   Zhang, Guo Wei ^a,b  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Macau Special Administrative Region   (China)

Author keywords

Acute spinal cord injury; Apoptotic factors; Caspase; Methylprednisolone

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 84865706172     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2012.552     Document Type: Article

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