Maternal immunopotentiation affects caspase activation and NF-κB DNA-binding activity in embryos responding to an embryopathic stress

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-44

  Torchinsky, Arkady ^a   Gongadze, Maka ^b   Zaslavsky, Zeev ^a   Savion, Shoshana ^a   Fein, Amos ^a   Toder, Veadimir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspases; Maternal immunopotentiation; NF B; Teratogenesis

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOPATHY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS WEIGHT; FLUOROMETRY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; IMMUNOPOTENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERATOGEN TESTING; TERATOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NF-KAPPA B; PREGNANCY; TERATOGENS;

EID: 33644690380     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2005.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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