Ceramide induces neuronal apoptosis through mitogen-activated protein kinases and causes release of multiple mitochondrial proteins

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 355-371

  Stoica, Bogdan A ^a   Movsesyan, Vilen A ^a   Knoblach, Susan M ^a   Faden, Alan I ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1,4 DIAMINO 1,4 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYLTHIO) 2,3 DICYANOBUTADIENE; 4 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 (4 HYDROXYPHENYL) 5 (4 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLE; 4 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 (4 METHYLSULFINYLPHENYL) 5 (4 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLE; ALLOGRAFT INFLAMMATORY FACTOR 1; CERAMIDE; CYTOCHROME C; ENDONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE G; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; SECOND MITOCHONDRIAL ACTIVATOR OF CASPASE; SERINE PROTEINASE OMI; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELLS, CULTURED; CERAMIDES; CYTOCHROMES C; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FLAVOPROTEINS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; RATS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 20444386209     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2005.02.009     Document Type: Article

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