Non-coding RNAs as potential neuroprotectants against ischemic brain injury

Brain Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 360-395

  Kaur, Prameet ^a   Liu, Fujia ^a   Tan, Jun Rong ^a   Lim, Kai Ying ^a   Sepramaniam, Sugunavathi ^a   Karolina, Dwi Setyowati ^a   Armugam, Arunmozhiarasi ^a   Jeyaseelan, Kandiah ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain; Ischemia; LncRNA; miRNA; Neuroprotectant; Non coding RNAs; piRNA

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIN D1; HOX PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; JAGGED1; MICRORNA 124; MICRORNA 223; MICRORNA 9; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3, 4, 5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN BCL 2; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

APOPTOSIS; BIOGENESIS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DOWN REGULATION; EXCITOTOXICITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84886283181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci3010360     Document Type: Review

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