Inhalation of low-level formaldehyde increases the Bcl-2/Bax expression ratio in the hippocampus of immunologically sensitized mice

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 63-68

  Tsukahara, Shinji ^a   Yamamoto, Shoji ^a   Shwe, Tin Tin Win ^a   Ahmed, Sohel ^a   Kunugita, Naoki ^b   Arashidani, Keiichi ^b   Fujimaki, Hidekazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active caspase 3; Bax; Bcl 2; Hippocampus; Low level formaldehyde; N methyl D aspartate receptor; Ovalbumin immunization

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; FORMALDEHYDE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OVALBUMIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIZATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOPROTECTION; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTOXINS; OVALBUMIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33751334095     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094829     Document Type: Article

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