In vivo inhibition of mir-155 promotes recovery after experimental mouse stroke

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 12446-12464

  Caballero Garrido, Ernesto ^a   Pena Philippides, Juan Carlos ^a   Lordkipanidze, Tamar ^b   Bragin, Denis ^a   Yang, Yirong ^c   Erhardt, Erik Barry ^d   Roitbak, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ischemia; MicroRNA; Microvasculature; Neuroprotection; Regeneration; Stroke

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 155 INHIBITOR; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MICRORNA; MIRN155 MICRORNA, MOUSE; TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CATWALK GAIT ANALYSIS TEST; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; MICROVASCULATURE; PATHOLOGY; RNAI THERAPEUTICS; TIGHT JUNCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRORNAS; MICROVESSELS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RNAI THERAPEUTICS; TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEINS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 84941247739     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1641-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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