Acylated ghrelin protects hippocampal neurons in pilocarpine-induced seizures of immature rats by inhibiting cell apoptosis

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-58

  Zhang, Ruiyun ^a,b   Yang, Guanglu ^a   Wang, Qingyi ^b   Guo, Feng ^a   Wang, Hua ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MUDANJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acylated ghrelin; Apoptosis; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Neuroprotective effect; Pilocarpine

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PILOCARPINE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CA3 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CASPASE 3; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GHRELIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PILOCARPINE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; SEIZURES;

RATTUS;

EID: 84871274773     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-1993-1     Document Type: Article

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