Progesterone alleviates hypoxic-ischemic brain injury via the Akt/GSK-3β signaling pathway

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1241-1246

  Li, Xiaojuan ^a   Zhang, Junhe ^a   Chai, Shujie ^a   Wang, Xiaoyin ^a  

^a XINXIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Akt; Brain damage; Glycogen synthase kinase 3 ; Hypoxia ischemia; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN KINASE B; WORTMANNIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84906482927     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2014.1858     Document Type: Article

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