Curcumin promotes the spinal cord repair via inhibition of glial scar formation and inflammation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 560, Issue , 2014, Pages 51-56

  Wang, Yu Fu ^a   Zu, Jia Ning ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Chen, Chao ^b   Xi, Chun Yang ^a   Yan, Jing Long ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astrogliosis; Curcumin; Inflammation; NF kappa B; Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; NITRIC OXIDE; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LAMINECTOMY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION;

ASTROGLIOSIS; CURCUMIN; INFLAMMATION; NF-KAPPA B; SIGNAL TRANSDUCER AND ACTIVATOR OF TRANSCRIPTION -3; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; CICATRIX; CURCUMIN; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NF-KAPPA B; NITRIC OXIDE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84891046145     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.11.050     Document Type: Article

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