Early acute necrosis, delayed apoptosis and cytoskeletal breakdown in cultured cerebellar granule neurons exposed to methylmercury

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 775-787

  Castoldi, Anna F ^a   Barni, Sergio ^b   Turin, Ilaria ^b   Gandini, Cristiano ^a   Manzo, Luigi ^a,b  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Insulin like growth factor I; Methylmercury; Microtubules; Mitochondria; Neurotoxicity

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CASPASE; CASPASE INHIBITOR; DIZOCILPINE; DNA FRAGMENT; EGTAZIC ACID; ETHYLENE GLYCOL 1,2 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYL) ETHER N,N,N',N' TETRAACETIC ACID; METHYLMERCURY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; PACLITAXEL; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; CELL VIABILITY; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; GRANULE CELL; MERCURIALISM; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CEREBELLUM; CYTOSKELETON; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034653128     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(20000315)59:6<775::AID-JNR10>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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