DNA damage and apoptosis in Alzheimer's disease: Colocalization with c-Jun immunoreactivity, relationship to brain area, and effect of postmortem delay

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1710-1719

  Anderson, Aileen J ^a,b   Su, Joseph H ^a   Cotman, Carl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell death; Cerebellum; DNA fragmentation; Entorhinal cortex; Gel electrophoresis; Immediate early gene; Immunocytochemistry; Neurodegeneration; Proto oncogene; Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; DNA DAMAGE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029976253     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-05-01710.1996     Document Type: Article

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