Mechanisms of neuroprotection from hypoxia-ischemia (HI) brain injury by up-regulation of cytoglobin (CYGB) in a neonatal rat model

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 15988-16003

  Tian, Shu Feng ^a   Yang, Han Hua ^a   Xiao, Dan Ping ^a   Huang, Yue Jun ^a   He, Gu Yu ^a   Hai Ran, Ma ^a   Xia, Fang ^a   Shi, Xue Chuan ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; EXPRESSION PROFILE; GENE TRANSFECTION; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; MORRIS WATER MAZE; NEUROPROTECTIVE EFFECTS; PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS; SUPER OXIDE DISMUTASE;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; PROTEINS; RATS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

CASPASE 2; CASPASE 3; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOGLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADENOVIRUS; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MICROVASCULATURE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CYTOGLOBIN; HYPOXIA; ISCHEMIA; MECHANISMS; NEUROPROTECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASPASE 3; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; GLOBINS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

ADENOVIRIDAE; RATTUS;

EID: 84878390361     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.428789     Document Type: Article

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