Axotomy-induced apoptotic cell death of neonatal rat facial motoneurons: Time course analysis and relation to NADPH-diaphorase activity

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-44

  Rossiter, J P ^a   Riopelle, R J ^a   Bisby, M A ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; NITRIC OXIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029967866     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0044     Document Type: Article

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