Effects of dissolved gases and an echo contrast agent on apoptosis induced by ultrasound and its mechanism via the mitochondria-caspase pathway

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 673-682

  Honda, Hidemi ^a,b   Zhao, Qing Li ^a   Kondo, Takashi ^a,c  

^a TOYAMA MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Himi Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cavitation; Echo contrast agent; Free radicals; Levovist ; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FREE RADICALS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS;

NECROSIS;

ARGON;

ARGON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CASPASE 3; DNA FRAGMENT; FREE RADICAL; HYDROGEN; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NITRITE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PEROXIDE; SHU 508; SUPEROXIDE;

AIR; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; INCUBATION TIME; LYMPHOMA CELL; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIN TRAPPING; ULTRASOUND;

APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FREE RADICALS; GASES; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MITOCHONDRIA; NECROSIS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SONICATION; U937 CELLS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 0036085574     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00509-4     Document Type: Article

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