Both ischemic preconditioning and ghrelin administration protect hippocampus from ischemiareperfusion and upregulate uncoupling protein-2.docVIP

BMC Physiology BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Both ischemic preconditioning and ghrelin administration protect hippocampus from ischemia/reperfusion and upregulate uncoupling protein-2 Yajun Liu1,2,4, Lianbi Chen1, Xiaoqun Xu3, Eric Vicaut2 and Richard Sercombe*2 Address: 1Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, PR China, 2Laboratory of Microcirculation Research (EA 3509), University Paris 7, France, 3Institute of Basic Medicine, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250012, Shandong, PR China and 4Medical Pharmacology