Neuronal and glial apoptosis in human traumatic brain injury

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 365-375

  Dressler J ^a   Hanisch, U ^a   Kuhlisch, E ^a   Geiger, K D ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Biostatistics; Immunohistochemistry; Traumatic brain injury aging

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROGLIA; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CASPASE 3; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548120638     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-006-0126-6     Document Type: Article

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