Article
Early NFkappaB activation is inhibited during focal cerebral ischemia in interleukin-1beta-converting enzyme deficient mice.
Journal of neuroscience research - 1 Sept 2003
Huang Feng-Peng, Wang Zhi-Qiu, Wu Du-Chu, Schielke Gerald P, Sun Yi, Yang Guo-Yuan
Abstract excerpt
Our previous study demonstrated that the inhibition of interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) reduces ischemic brain injury; however, the molecular mechanism of the action of IL-1 in cerebral ischemia is unclear. We are investigating currently the role of NFkappaB during focal cerebral ischemia, using mutant mice deficient in the interleukin-1 converting enzyme gene (ICE KO) in a middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO)...
Topics
- Animals
- Blotting, Western
- Brain
- Brain Ischemia
- Caspase 1
- Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay
- Immunohistochemistry
- Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery
- Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1
- Male
