Oral administration of the flavanol (-)-epicatechin bolsters endogenous protection against focal ischemia through the Nrf2 cytoprotective pathway

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3659-3668

  Leonardo, Christopher C ^a   Agrawal, Megha ^a   Singh, Nilendra ^a   Moore, J Russell ^a   Biswal, Shyam ^b   Doré, Sylvain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Cultured neurons; Mouse; Neuroinflammation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

EPICATECHIN; OXYGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FORELIMB; GLIA CELL; GLUCOSE DEPRIVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN OXIDATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BEHAVIOR; CULTURED NEURONS; MOUSE; NEUROINFLAMMATION; STROKE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CATECHIN; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOVEMENT; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NF-E2-RELATED FACTOR 2; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 84897051682     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12362     Document Type: Article

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