Differential changes of bax, caspase-3 and p21 mRNA expression after transient focal brain ischemia in the rat

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 88-101

  Schmidt Kastner, Rainald ^a   Truettner, Jessie ^a   Zhao, Weizhao ^a   Belayev, Ludmila ^a   Krieger, Charlene ^a   Busto, Raul ^a   Ginsberg, Myron D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax; Caspase; Cell cycle; p21

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN P21;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BRAIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; CYCLINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; KINETICS; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034705558     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(00)00104-2     Document Type: Article

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