Electroacupuncture preconditioning reduces cerebral ischemic injury via BDNF and SDF-1α in mice

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kim, Ji Hyun ^a   Choi, Kyung Ha ^a   Jang, Young Jung ^a   Kim, Ha Neui ^a   Bae, Sun Sik ^b   Choi, Byung Tae ^a   Shin, Hwa Kyoung ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

BDNF; Electroacupuncture; Focal cerebral ischemia; Preconditioning; SDF 1

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CD31 ANTIGEN; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHEMOKINE CXCL12; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FORELIMB; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84872778898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-13-22     Document Type: Article

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