Effective protection of rabbits' explosive brain injury through blocking gap junction communication

African Health Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 552-556

  Yong Ming, Z ^a   Jia Chuan, Liu ^a   Yan Yan, Y ^a   Wen Jiang, S ^a   Hong, T ^a   Bing Cang, L ^b   Liang Chao, Z ^b  

^a The 105th Hospital of PLA   (China)

^b THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Caspase 3; Connexin 43 (cx43); Explosive brain injury

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CONNEXIN 43; OCTANOL; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CASPASE-3; CONNEXIN-43 (CX43); EXPLOSIVE BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BLAST INJURIES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN INJURIES; CASPASE 3; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; OCTANOLS; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84873275885     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v12i4.24     Document Type: Article

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