Nuclear condensation and fragmentation following cerebral hypoxia-ischemia occurs more frequently in immature than older rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-132

  Sidhu, Ranjinder S ^a,b   Tuor, Ursula I ^a   Del Bigio, Marc R ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Dept of Pharmacol and Therapeutics ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

apoptosis; ischemia; karyorrhexis; morph ology; necrosis; pyknosis; quantification

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NECROSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHROMATIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031051736     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13426-7     Document Type: Article

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