Absence of excitotoxicity-induced apoptosis in the hippocampus of mice lacking the Jnk3 gene

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6653, 1997, Pages 865-870

  Yang, Derek D ^a,b   Kuan, Chia Yi ^a   Whitmarsh, Alan J ^a,b   Rincón, Mercedes ^a,c   Zheng, Timothy S ^a   Davis, Roger J ^a,b   Rakic, Pasko ^a   Flavell, Richard A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 10; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; SEIZURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1;

EID: 0030780804     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39899     Document Type: Article

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