Upregulation of the neuronal Per-Arnt-Sim domain protein 4 (Npas4) in the rat corticolimbic system following focal cerebral ischemia

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1875-1884

  Leong, Wai Khay ^a   Klaric, Thomas S ^a   Lin, Yingxi ^b   Lewis, Martin D ^a   Koblar, Simon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticolimbic; Focal cerebral ischemia; Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Npas4; Rat brain

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PERN ARNT SIM DOMAIN PROTEIN 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NPAS4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENTATE GYRUS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84878485476     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12163     Document Type: Article

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