Muscle apoptosis in humans occurs in normal and denervated muscle, but not in myotonic dystrophy, dystrophinopathies or inflammatory disease

Neurogenetics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 81-87

  Migheli, Antonio ^a   Mongini, Tiziana ^a   Doriguzzi, Carlo ^a   Chiadò Piat, Loredana ^a   Piva, Roberto ^a   Ugo, Isabella ^a   Palmucci, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell death; Dystrophinopathy; ICE like proteases; In situ end labeling; Muscle; Tissue transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

CASP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHILD; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MYOSITIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NICK END LABELING; PATHOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL NUCLEUS; CHILD; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MYOSITIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; TRANSGLUTAMINASES;

EID: 0031215398     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100480050012     Document Type: Article

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