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Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1: Its Potential Role In Cerebral Ischemia.
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PMID:  22297543     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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A divergence in the supply and consumption of oxygen in brain tissue initiates complex cycle of biochemical and molecular events resulting in neuronal death. To overcome such adverse situation, the tissue has to adopt some cellular mechanisms such as induction of various transcription factors, such as hypoxia inducible factor (HIF). It is a transcriptional regulator of oxygen homeostasis and key factor to generate the adaptive responses through upregulation of various target genes involved in the erythropoiesis, angiogenesis as well as glucose metabolism and transport. On the other hand, some studies do suggest that HIF also plays a detrimental role in ischemic reperfusion injury by inducing the pro apoptotic molecules, cytokines such as Nix, BNip3, and IL-20 which cause mitochondrial dysfunction leading to cell death. Hence, modulation of HIF-1 activity seems to provide an innovative therapeutic target to reduce the cellular damage, which arises from ischemic injury. Apart from traditional oxygen dependent HIF regulation, the focus has now shifted toward oxygen independent regulation in cell specific manner through reactive oxygen species involving hypoxia-associated factor, and heat shock protein 90, etc. Therefore, future development of such small molecule regulators for HIF-1 stability and signaling may prove useful to therapeutically target for enhancing recovery and repair in I/R injury.
Authors:
Neetu Singh; Gaurav Sharma; Vikas Mishra; Ram Raghubir
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Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2012-2-2
Journal Detail:
Title:  Cellular and molecular neurobiology     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1573-6830     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2012 Feb 
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Created Date:  2012-2-2     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  8200709     Medline TA:  Cell Mol Neurobiol     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Division of Pharmacology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, P.O. Box 173, Lucknow, 226001, UP, India.
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