A highly toxic cellular prion protein induces a novel, nonapoptotic form of neuronal death

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2695-2706

  Christensen, Heather M ^a   Dikranian, Krikor ^a   Li, Aimin ^a   Baysac, Kathleen C ^a   Walls, Ken C ^b   Olney, John W ^a   Roth, Kevin A ^b   Harris, David A ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; PRION PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PRION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXCITOTOXICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; CBA MOUSE; CELL DEATH; CELL SHAPE; CEREBELLUM; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRION; TOXICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CELL DEATH; CELL SHAPE; CEREBELLUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; PRIONS; PRPC PROTEINS;

EID: 77953206169     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: 15252191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2010.091007     Document Type: Article

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