Activation of microglia in kainic acid induced rat retinal apoptosis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 159-162

  Shin, Dong Hoon ^a   Lee, Hwa Young ^a   Lee, Hye Won ^a   Lee, Kyung Hoon ^b   Lim, Hyoung Soo ^c   Jeon, Gye Sun ^c   Cho, Sa Sun ^c   Hwang, Douk Ho ^c  

^a Dankook University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization; Kainic acid; Microglia; Rat; Retina; Terminal transferase mediated dUTP nick end labeling staining

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MICROGLIA; PHAGOCYTES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0343714687     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01445-2     Document Type: Article

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