Phosphorylation of caspase-9 in the cytosolic fraction of the cerebral cortex of newborn piglets following hypoxia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 447, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 96-99

  Levenbrown, Yosef ^a   Ashraf, Qazi M ^a   Maounis, Nicoletta ^a   Mishra, Om P ^a   Delivoria Papadopoulos, Maria ^a  

^a ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Brain; Caspase 9; Hypoxia; Newborn

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CASPASE 9; FENTANYL; SERINE; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOLIC FRACTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; CASPASE 9; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PHOSPHOCREATINE; PHOSPHORYLATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE;

EID: 54249127376     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.09.076     Document Type: Article

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