Purification of a multipotent antideath activity from bovine liver and its identification as arginase: Nitric oxide-independent inhibition of neuronal apoptosis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4083-4095

  Esch, Fred ^a   Lin, Kuo I ^d   Hills, Anna ^a   Zaman, Khalequz ^d   Baraban, Jay M ^c   Chatterjee, Sukalyan ^d   Rubin, Lee ^a   Ash, David E ^b   Ratan, Rajiv R ^d,e  

^a EISAI CO LTD   (Japan)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e HARVARD INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Arginase; Glutathione; Neurons; Nitric oxide; Oxidative stress; Staurosporine

Indexed keywords

ARGINASE; GLUTATHIONE; NITRIC OXIDE; STAUROSPORINE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME REGULATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; SINDBIS VIRUS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0032101223     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-11-04083.1998     Document Type: Article

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