Attenuation of ischemia and/or reperfusion injury during myocardial infarction using mild hypothermia in rats: An immunohistochemical study of Bcl-2, Bax, Bak and TUNEL

Pathology International

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 896-903

  Babu, Phanithi Prakash ^a,b   Suzuki, Gen ^b   Ono, Yukihiko ^b   Yoshida, Yasuji ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bak; Bax; Bcl 2; Hypothermia; Ischemia; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL INFILTRATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHERMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISCHEMIA; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; NEUTROPHIL; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REPERFUSION; REPERFUSION INJURY;

ANIMALS; BCL-2 HOMOLOGOUS ANTAGONIST-KILLER PROTEIN; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPERFUSION INJURY;

EID: 11244253943     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2004.01767.x     Document Type: Article

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