Expression of the Ku70 subunit (XRCC6) and protection from low dose ionizing radiation during zebrafish embryogenesis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 422, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-102

  Bladen, Catherine L ^a   Navarre, Sammy ^a   Dynan, William S ^a   Kozlowski, David J ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; DNA repair; Embryo; Ionizing radiation; Ku protein; Ku70; Nonhomologous end joining; TUNEL; XRCC6; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

KU ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTOXICITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IONIZING RADIATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD; TAIL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZEBRA FISH; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOPROTECTION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 34447509272     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.05.045     Document Type: Article

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