TTC staining of damaged brain areas after MCA occlusion in the rat does not constrict quantitative gene and protein analyses

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 84-89

  Kramer, Martin ^a   Dang, Jon ^a   Baertling, Fabian ^a   Denecke, Bernd ^a   Clarner, Tim ^a   Kirsch, Christoph ^b   Beyer, Cordian ^a   Kipp, Markus ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MACHEREY NAGEL GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; MCAO; Mitochondria; Stroke; TTC

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA STABILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COLORING AGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MALE; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA; STROKE; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 77249166032     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.12.020     Document Type: Article

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