Bcl-w expression is increased in brain regions affected by focal cerebral ischemia in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 193-195

  Minami, Manabu ^a   Lin Jin, Kun ^b   Li, Wenjin ^c   Nagayama, Tetsuya ^c   Henshall, David C ^a   Simon, Roger P ^a  

^a LEGACY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl w; Cerebral ischemia; Immunocytochemistry; Neurons; Programmed cell death; Western blot analysis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUTAMEN; RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NEURONS; RATS;

EID: 0343851673     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00987-8     Document Type: Article

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