Effect of chronic lead exposure on pro-apoptotic Bax and anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein expression in rat hippocampus in vivo

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 769-774

  Sharifi, Ali M ^a,b,c   Mousavi, Seyed Hadi ^b,d   Jorjani, Masoumeh ^e  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax; Bcl 2; Hippocampus; Lead neurotoxicity; Protein expression

Indexed keywords

LEAD; LEAD ACETATE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS FRAGMENTATION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN CLUMPING; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHRONIC DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77956265912     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-010-9504-1     Document Type: Article

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