
Nicotine and estrogen synergistically exacerbate cerebral ischemic injury
Keywords: cardiac arrest; hippocampus; organotypic slice culture; oral contraceptives; estrogen receptor-betaAkt, serine/threonine protein kinase; CA, cardiac arrest; CREB, cyclic-AMP response element binding protein; ER-β, estrogen receptor-beta; MAPK, mitogen-act