Taurine protects transformed rat retinal ganglion cells from hypoxia-induced apoptosis by preventing mitochondrial dysfunction

Brain Research

Volumn 1279, Issue , 2009, Pages 131-138

  Chen, Ka ^a   Zhang, Qianyong ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Liu, Fengjin ^a   Mi, Mantian ^a   Xu, Hongxia ^a   Chen, Fang ^a   Zeng, Kaihong ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Hypoxia; Mitochondria; Retinal ganglion cell line; Taurine

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CASPASE 3; CYTOCHROME C; TAURINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYPOXIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STAINING;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM; CASPASE 3; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CYTOCHROMES C; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAURINE;

RATTUS;

EID: 67649400331     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.04.054     Document Type: Article

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