Apoptosis onset and Bax protein distribution in spinal motoneurons of newborn rats following sciatic nerve axotomy

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1163-1175

  Tiraihi, Taki ^a   Rezaie, Mohammed Jaffer ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Morphometry; Motoneuron; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; AXOTOMY; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GOLGI APPARATUS; MOTOR NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0141996970     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450390212311     Document Type: Article

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