Early vacuolization and mitochondrial damage in motor neurons of FALS mice are not associated with apoptosis or with changes in cytochrome oxidase histochemical reactivity

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 25-33

  Bendotti, Caterina ^a   Calvaresi, Novella ^a   Chiveri, Luca ^b   Prelle, Alessandro ^b   Moggio, Maurizio ^b   Braga, Massimilano ^b   Silani, Vincenzo ^b   De Biasi, Silvia ^c  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Excitotoxicity; Mitochondria; Motor neuron; Superoxide dismutase 1 mutants; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; EXCITOTOXIN; NEUROTOXIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SWELLING; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOCHONDRIA; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHRENIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VACUOLES;

EID: 0035886428     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(01)00627-X     Document Type: Article

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