Time course assessment of methylmercury effects on C6 glioma cells: Submicromolar concentrations induce oxidative DNA damage and apoptosis

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 703-711

  Belletti, Silvana ^a   Orlandini, Guido ^a   Vittoria Vettori, Maria ^a   Mutti, Antonio ^a   Uggeri, Jacopo ^a   Scandroglio, Renato ^a   Alinovi, Rossella ^a   Gatti, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Glial model; Methylmercury; Oxidative damage; Time lapse confocal microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CASPASE; GLUTATHIONE; METHYLMERCURY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; DNA DAMAGE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GLIA CELL; GLIOMA CELL; HEAVY METAL POISONING; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DEOXYGUANOSINE; DNA DAMAGE; FLUORESCEINS; GLIOMA; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036892933     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10419     Document Type: Article

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