A study of cell death in Werdnig Hoffmann disease brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 117-120

  Hayashi, Masaharu ^a   Arai, Nobutaka ^a   Murakami, Toshikazu ^b   Yoshio, Morimatsu ^a   Oda, Masaya ^b   Matsuyama, Haruo ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; In situ nick end labeling; Spinal muscular atrophy; TdT mediated DIG dUTP nick end labeling; Thalamus; Werdnig Hoffmann disease

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; WERDNIG HOFFMANN DISEASE;

APOPTOSIS; BIOTIN; DEOXYURACIL NUCLEOTIDES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD; STAINING AND LABELING; THALAMUS;

EID: 0031886390     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00105-0     Document Type: Article

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