Immunolocalization of caspase proteolysis in situ: Evidence for widespread caspase-mediated apoptosis of neurons and glia in the postnatal rat brain

Neuroscience

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1425-1442

  Siman, R ^a   Bozyczko Coyne, D ^a   Meyer, S L ^a   Bhat, R V ^a  

^a CEPHALON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspase; Growth factor deprivation; PC12 cell; Postnatal development; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARGYROPHILIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; GLIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEUKEMIA CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA CELL; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; CASPASES; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PC12 CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032971746     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00034-2     Document Type: Article

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