Signaling through the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor VEGFR-2 protects hippocampal neurons from mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 421-431

  Hao, Tianfeng ^a   Rockwell, Patricia ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampal neurons; Mitochondrial dysfunction; Oxidative stress; VEGF; VEGF B; VEGFR 2

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ACTIN; CASPASE 3; HEME OXYGENASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BCL XL; VASCULOTROPIN B; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE SILENCING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIMARY CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84879825829     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2013.05.036     Document Type: Article

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