Involvement of Fas/FasL system in apoptotic signaling in testicular germ cells of male Wistar rats injected i.v. with microcystins

Toxicon

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Xiong, Qian ^a,b   Xie, Ping ^a   Li, Huiying ^a   Hao, Le ^a,b   Li, Guangyu ^a,b   Qiu, Tong ^a,b   Liu, Ying ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Caspase; Fas FasL; Microcystin; Real time PCR; Testis; TUNEL staining; Western blot

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; FAS LIGAND; MICROCYSTIN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE; GERM CELL; INJECTION; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS; TESTIS CELL; UPREGULATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CYANOBACTERIA; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; GERM CELLS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICROCYSTINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 67349175976     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.01.035     Document Type: Article

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