Bax ablation protects against hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury in transgenic mice

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1181-1188

  Ben Ari, Ziv ^a,c   Pappo, Orit ^a   Cheporko, Yelena ^a   Yasovich, Natali ^a   Offen, Daniel ^a   Shainberg, Asher ^b   Leshem, Dorit ^b   Sulkes, Jacquelin ^a   Vidne, Bernardo A ^a   Hochhauser, Edith ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; LIVER ENZYME; PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUOROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATED LIVER; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIVER CELL; LIVER INJURY; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER PROTECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; STAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AZO COMPOUNDS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PERFUSION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REPERFUSION INJURY;

EID: 34548183265     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21221     Document Type: Article

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