Astrocytic gap junctions composed of connexin 43 reduce apoptotic neuronal damage in cerebral ischemia

Stroke

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1987-1993

  Nakase, Taizen ^a,b   Fushiki, Shinji ^b   Naus, Christian C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Astrocytes; Connexin 43; Gap junctions; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HETEROZYGOTE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NEURONS;

EID: 0042122377     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000079814.72027.34     Document Type: Article

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