Progesterone protects blood-brain barrier function and improves neurological outcome following traumatic brain injury in rats

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1010-1014

  Si, Daowen ^a   Li, Juan ^a   Liu, Jiang ^a   Wang, Xiaoyin ^b   Wei, Zifeng ^a   Tian, Qingyou ^a   Wang, Haitao ^a   Liu, Gang ^a  

^a HEBEI UNITED UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINXIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Neurological function; Progesterone; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN WATER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MODIFIED NEUROLOGICAL SEVERITY SCORE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84904389184     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2014.1840     Document Type: Article

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