Rickettsia rickettsii infection causes apoptotic death of cultured cerebellar granule neurons

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 138-141

  Joshi, Suresh G ^a,b   Kovács, Attila D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CEREBELLUM; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; TUBULIN; VERO CELLS;

EID: 33845992213     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46826-0     Document Type: Letter

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