Morphological and biochemical changes during programmed cell death of rat cerebellar granule cells

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-48

  Chang, Jason Y ^a   Wang, Jian Zhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; cerebellar granule cells; programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; GRANULE CELL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RNA SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031044978     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1027373220133     Document Type: Article

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