Mechanisms of photoreceptor cell apoptosis induced by N-methyl-N- nitrosourea in Sprague-Dawley rats

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1359-1367

  Yoshizawa, Katsuhiko ^a,b   Nambu, Hiroyuki ^a   Yang, Jihong ^a   Oishi, Yuji ^b   Senzaki, Hideto ^a   Shikata, Nobuaki ^a   Miki, Hirohiko ^a   Tsubura, Airo ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Toxicology Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; DEOXYGUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; DNA; METHYLNITROSOUREA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ADDUCT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASES; DNA ADDUCTS; FEMALE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032707946     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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