17β-estradiol protects 7-day old rats from acute brain injury and reduces the number of apoptotic cells

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 253-261

  Müller, Martin M ^a   Middelanis, Johannes ^b   Meier, Carola ^c   Surbek, Daniel ^a   Berger, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Sankt Elisabeth Hospital   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MHK St Elisabeth ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

estradiol; hypoxia ischemia; neonatal; neuroprotection

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN INJURIES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84874458934     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719112452471     Document Type: Article

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