Acknowledgements This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81273491, 81072618, and 81173041) and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (LY12H31010). We thank Dr IC Bruce for critically reading and revising the manuscript.
Aim: To investigate the roles of cysteinyl leukotriene receptors CysLT1R and CysLT2R in leukotriene D4 (LTD4)-induced activation of microglial cells in vitro. Methods: Mouse microglial cell line BV2 was transfecte...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81273491, 81072618,30772561 and 30873053);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province,China(Y2090069);the"Qianjiang Rencai Research Plan"of Zhejiang Province China(2010R10055);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(2009QNA7008)
Objective Aquaporin-4 (AQP4), the main water channel protein in the brain, plays a critical role in water homeostasis and brain edema. Here, we investigated its role in the inflammatory responses after focal cerebra...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81072618,30772561,30873053 and 30672449);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province,China (Y2090069);the "Qian Jiang Ren Cai Research Plan" Zhejiang Province,China (2010R10055);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (2009QNA7008)
Objective To determine whether aquaporin-4 (AQP4) regulates acute lesions, delayed lesions, and the associated microglial activation after cryoinjury to the brain. Methods Brain cryoinjury was applied to AQP4 knocko...