Expression of ced-3 and ced-9 homologs in Alzheimer's disease cerebral cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 69-72

  Desjardins, Paul ^a   Ledoux, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Apoptosis; Cell death genes; Cysteine proteases; Interleukin 1 converting enzyme; Neuronal Cell death

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; AUTOLYSIS; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BCL-X PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CASPASE 1; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASES; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; FRONTAL LOBE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032513029     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00138-4     Document Type: Article

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