Apoptosis of primary-culture rat microglial cells induced by pathogenic Acanthamoeba spp.

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 510-514

  Shin, Ho Joon ^a   Cho, Myung Soo ^a   Kim, Hyung Il ^a   Lee, Millina ^a   Park, Sun ^a   Sohn, Seonghyang ^a   Im, Kyung Il ^b  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL LYSATE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICROGLIA; NEWBORN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TROPHOZOITE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0034020468     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.7.3.510-514.2000     Document Type: Article

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