Systemic simvastatin rescues retinal ganglion cells from optic nerve injury possibly through suppression of astroglial NF-κB activation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Morishita, Seita ^a   Oku, Hidehiro ^a   Horie, Taeko ^a   Tonari, Masahiro ^a   Kida, Teruyo ^a   Okubo, Akiko ^a   Sugiyama, Tetsuya ^a   Takai, Shinji ^a   Hara, Hideaki ^b   Ikeda, Tsunehiko ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b GIFU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; ASTROCYTES; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOKINE CCL2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIN-1; ENZYME ACTIVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SIMVASTATIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84894268358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084387     Document Type: Article

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