Overexpression of mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) ameliorates delayed neuronal death due to transient forebrain ischemia in mice

Neuropathology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 401-407

  Hokari, Masaaki ^a   Kuroda, Satoshi ^a   Kinugawa, Shintaro ^b   Ide, Tomomi ^b   Tsutsui, Hiroyuki ^b   Iwasaki, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cerebral ischemia; mitochondria; neuronal survival; selective vulnerability; transcription factor

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON;

EID: 77954829313     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2009.01086.x     Document Type: Article

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