Steroid-triggered programmed cell death of a motoneuron is autophagic and involves structural changes in mitochondria

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 457, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 384-403

  Kinch, Ginger ^a,b   Hoffman, Kurt L ^a,c   Rodrigues, Elizabeth M ^a   Zee, Michele C ^a   Weeks, Janis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Electron microscopy; Manduca; Neurodegeneration; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; DNA FRAGMENT; ECDYSONE; HYDROXYECDYSONE; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; DNA DEGRADATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXOCYTOSIS; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLTING; MOTONEURON; NERVE DEGENERATION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; RIBOSOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; ECDYSTERONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MANDUCA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; MOTOR NEURONS;

EID: 0037468095     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10563     Document Type: Article

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