Bax-dependent and -independent death of motoneurons after facial nerve injury in adult mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1421-1432

  Park, Ok Hee ^a   Lee, Kea Joo ^a   Rhyu, Im Joo ^a   Geum, Dongho ^a   Kim, Hyun ^a   Buss, Robert ^b   Oppenheim, Ronald W ^b   Sun, Woong ^a  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell death; Microglia; Oligodendrocyte; Root avulsion

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MORTALITY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AXONS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; OLIGODENDROGLIA;

EID: 34548701773     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05787.x     Document Type: Article

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