Blocking astrocyte transformation at the dysfunctional blood brain barrier

Epilepsy Currents

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 87-89

  Naegele, Janice R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LOSARTAN; SERUM ALBUMIN; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; INFLAMMATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84944385672     PISSN: 15357597     EISSN: 15357511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5698/1535-7597-15.2.87     Document Type: Note

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