Involvement of nitric oxide-mediated intrinsic pathway signaling in age-related increase in germ cell apoptosis in male Brown-Norway rats

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 702-708

  Sinha Hikim, Amiya P ^a,b   Vera, Yanira ^a   Vernet, Dolores ^a   Castanares, Mark ^a   Diaz Romero, Maruja ^a   Ferrini, Monica ^a   Swerdloff, Ronald S ^a   Gonzalez Cadavid, Nestor F ^a   Wang, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CITRULLINE; CYTOCHROME C; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AGING; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GERM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 21144456301     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/60.6.702     Document Type: Article

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