Progesterone alleviates acute brain injury via reducing apoptosis and oxidative stress in a rat experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage model

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 600, Issue , 2015, Pages 238-243

  Cai, Jing ^a   Cao, Shenglong ^a   Chen, Jingyin ^a   Yan, Feng ^a   Chen, Gao ^a   Dai, Yuying ^b  

^a THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Acute brain injury; Apoptosis; Oxidative stress; Progesterone; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CYTOCHROME C; MALONALDEHYDE; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERFORATION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME RELEASE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROGESTERONE; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 84934901281     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2015.06.023     Document Type: Article

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