Pericytes contribute to the disruption of the cerebral endothelial barrier via increasing VEGF expression: Implications for stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Bai, Ying ^a   Zhu, Xinjian ^a   Chao, Jie ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a   Qian, Cheng ^a   Li, Peicheng ^a   Liu, Dongfang ^a   Han, Bing ^a   Zhao, Lei ^a   Zhang, Jianqiong ^a   Buch, Shilpa ^b   Teng, Gaojun ^a   Hu, Gang ^c   Yao, Honghong ^d  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Department of Immunology Medical School of Southeast University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; VASCULOTROPIN; SODIUM CYANIDE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN PERICYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ASSAY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; ONCOGENE SRC; PATHOLOGY; PERICYTE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

MUS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENES, SRC; HUMANS; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PERICYTES; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SODIUM CYANIDE; STROKE; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84929493104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124362     Document Type: Article

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