Enhanced oligodendrocyte survival after spinal cord injury in bax-deficient mice and mice with delayed Wallerian degeneration

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 8682-8691

  Dong, Hongxin ^a   Fazzaro, Alicia ^a   Xiang, Chuanxi ^a   Korsmeyer, Stanley J ^c   Jacquin, Mark F ^a   McDonald, John W ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurology   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax deficiency; Bax ; Immunohistochemistry; Oligodendrocyte death; Spinal cord hemisection; Wallerian degeneration; Wlds mutation

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CYCLOSPORIN A; KAINIC ACID; PROTEIN BAX; STAUROSPORINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0141758289     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-25-08682.2003     Document Type: Article

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