Increased expression ratio of bcl-2/bax is associated with crocin-mediated apoptosis in bovine aortic endothelial cells

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-35

  Xu, Guanglin ^a   Gong, Zhunan ^a   Yu, Weiping ^b   Gao, Lei ^c   He, Shuying ^d   Qian, Zhiyu ^d  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c 81 Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army   (China)

^d CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CROCIN; FLUO 3; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALF (BOVINE); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORACIC AORTA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AORTA, THORACIC; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CAROTENOIDS; CATTLE; CONDIMENTS; CYTOPROTECTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

BOS TAURUS; GARDENIA;

EID: 33845985320     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2007.00001.x     Document Type: Article

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