Apoptosis in the rat basal forebrain during development and following lesions of connections

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 573-585

  Sophou, Stavroula ^a   Dori, Ioanna ^a   Antonopoulos, John ^a   Parnavelas, John G ^b   Dinopoulos, Athanasios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal forebrain; Cholinergic neurons; Development; Programmed cell death; Target removal

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CELL MARKER; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NEUROTROPHIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DENERVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33746254894     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04929.x     Document Type: Article

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