Neuroprotective effects of melatonin administered alone or in combination with topiramate in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic rat model

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 435-444

  Ozyener, Fadil ^a   Çetinkaya, Merih ^b   Alkan, Tulin ^a   Gören, Bülent ^a   Kafa, Ilker Mustafa ^a   Kurt, Mustafa Ayberk ^a   Koksal, Nilgun ^b  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Division of Neonatology   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Combination therapy; hypoxia ischemia; melatonin; neuroprotection; topiramate

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; TOPIRAMATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASPASE 3; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FRUCTOSE; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MELATONIN; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS;

EID: 84866878763     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2012-120217     Document Type: Article

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