Pethidine-induced neuronal apoptosis in rat brain

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Guohua ^a   Wang, Baojie ^a   Wu, Xu ^a   Hu, Gengyi ^a   Zhu, Baoli ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Caspase 3; Drug abuse; ncNOS; Neuronal apoptosis; Pethidine; Rat

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PETHIDINE; PROTEIN BAX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MEPERIDINE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NARCOTICS; NECROSIS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 65749092543     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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