Early exercise protects against cerebral ischemic injury through inhibiting neuron apoptosis in cortex in rats

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 6074-6089

  Zhang, Pengyue ^a,b   Zhang, Yuling ^b   Zhang, Jie ^a,c   Wu, Yi ^b   Jia, Jie ^b   Wu, Junfa ^b   Hu, Yongshan ^b  

^a KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspase; Cerebral ischemia; Early exercise; Neuroprotection

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RAT; TREADMILL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

RATTUS;

EID: 84875533302     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms14036074     Document Type: Article

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