Enhanced expression of the Flt-1 and Flk-1 receptor tyrosine kinases in a newborn piglet model of ischemic tolerance

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 735-746

  Ara, Jahan ^a   Shukla, Panchanan ^a   Frank, Melissa ^a  

^a ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Flk 1; Flt 1; hypoxia ischemia; hypoxic preconditioning; newborn brain; piglet

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPOXIC PRECONDITIONING; ISCHEMIC TOLERANCE; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CREB-BINDING PROTEIN; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 84874110947     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnc.12110     Document Type: Article

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