Amentoflavone protects hippocampal neurons: Anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, and antiapoptotic effects

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1125-1133

  Zhang, Zhen ^a   Sun, Tao ^a   Niu, Jian Guo ^a   He, Zhen Quan ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Wang, Feng ^a  

^a NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Brain inflammation; Brain injury; Epilepsy; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Interleukin 1 beta; Interleukin 6; Nerve regeneration; Neural regeneration; Neuroprotection; Nitric oxide; NSFC grant; Nuclear factor B; Prostaglandin E2

Indexed keywords

AMENTOFLAVONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; PILOCARPINE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUNEL ASSAY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84938237840     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: 18767958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.160109     Document Type: Article

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