Injection of neural progenitor cells attenuates decrease in level of connexin 43 in brain capillaries after cerebral ischemia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 543, Issue , 2013, Pages 152-156

  Moriyama, Yoshiyuki ^a   Takagi, Norio ^a   Itokawa, Chisa ^a   Tanonaka, Kouichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain capillaries; Cerebral ischemia; Gap junction; Neural progenitor cells

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; AQUAPORIN 4; CONNEXIN 43; MICROSPHERE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLISM; ENCEPHALE ISOLE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INJECTION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 4; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CADHERINS; CAPILLARIES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; NEURAL STEM CELLS; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84877141553     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.03.053     Document Type: Article

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