The role of caveolin-1 phosphorylation in AQP4 membrane expression in a model of oxidative stress in primary astrocyte cultures

Astrocytes play an important role in a wide variety of physiological processes and in disease states such as ischemia. Ischemic damage in the brain involves apoptotic cell death of neurons as well as astrocytes and it has been suggested that reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated as a consequenc...

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Main Author: Bi, Chongshan
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37065