Neuroprotective effects of autophagy induced by rapamycin in rat acute spinal cord injury model

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 257-267

  Wang, Zhen Yu ^a   Liu, Wen Ge ^a   Muharram, Akram ^b   Wu, Zhao Yan ^a   Lin, Jian Hua ^a  

^a FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute spinal cord injury; Cell apoptosis; Cell autophagy; Rapamycin

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GLUCOCORTICOID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD CELL CULTURE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EMBRYO; GALE SCALE; GRAY MATTER; IN VITRO STUDY; LOWER EXTREMITY FUNCTIONAL SCALE; NEUROPROTECTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SIROLIMUS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84895673254     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: 14230216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000357382     Document Type: Article

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