N-Acetylcysteine alters apoptotic gene expression in axotomised primary sensory afferent subpopulations

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 148-155

  Reid, Adam J ^a,b   Shawcross, Susan G ^a   Hamilton, Alex E ^a,b   Wiberg, Mikael ^b   Terenghi, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglion; Neuronal apoptosis; Neuroprotection; Peripheral nerve injury; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CASPASE 3; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AXOTOMY; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOPROTECTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SKIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 68949155373     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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