Mitochondrial anomalies are associated with the induction of intrinsic cell death proteins-Bcl2, Bax, cytochrome-c and p53 in mice brain during experimental fatal murine cerebral malaria

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 329, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 319-323

  Kumar, Kota Arun ^a   Babu, Phanithi Prakash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax; Bcl2; Cerebral malaria; Cytochrome c; Cytokines; Mitochondria; p53

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MALARIA; CELL DEATH; CELL VACUOLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0037031527     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00470-6     Document Type: Article

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