Application | Comment | Organism |
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drug development | tissue kallikrein represents a promising therapeutic strategy for ischemic stroke | Homo sapiens |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Homo sapiens | - |
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Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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urine | - |
Homo sapiens | - |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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kallidinogenase | - |
Homo sapiens |
tissue kallikrein | - |
Homo sapiens |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | tissue kallikrein has antioxidant characteristics and is capable of alleviating ischemia-acidosis/reperfusion-induced injury, inhibiting apoptosis and promoting cell survival in vitro: pretreatment of cultured cortical neurons from rats with tissue kallikrein reduces cell death induced by either acidosis or oxygen and glucose deprivation-acidosis/reoxygenation. It exerts the neuroprotective effects by reducing production of reactive oxygen species, stabilizing the mitochondrial membrane potential and inhibiting caspase-3 activation, and thereby attenuating oxidative stress and apoptosis. Activation of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase1/2 signaling cascade but not the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway is required for the survival-promoting effect of tissue kallikrein on neurons exposed to oxygen and glucose deprivation-acidosis/reoxygenation | Homo sapiens |