Improved cognitive outcome after progesterone administration is associated with protecting hippocampal neurons from secondary damage studied in vitro and in vivo

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 264, Issue , 2014, Pages 135-142

  Si, Daowen ^a,c   Yang, Peng ^a   Jiang, Rongcai ^b   Zhou, Hongxia ^a   Wang, Haitao ^a   Zhang, Yuxin ^a  

^a HEBEI UNITED UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Tianjin Medical University General Hospital ^*  (China)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; Hippocampal neuron; Progesterone; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG TARGETING; EXCITOTOXICITY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONAL CULTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

COGNITIVE FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPAL NEURON; PROGESTERONE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84896727131     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.01.049     Document Type: Article

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