Anti-apoptotic effects of allopregnanolone on P19 neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-54

  Xilouri, Maria ^a   Papazafiri, Panagiota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c; GABAA receptor; Mouse; N methyl D aspartate cytotoxicity; Neurosteroids; Subunit expression

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME C; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROSTEROID; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BICUCULLINE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOCHROMES C; CYTOSOL; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; PREGNANOLONE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TIME FACTORS; TUBULIN;

EID: 33644944116     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04548.x     Document Type: Article

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