C-Jun N terminal kinases (JNK) are activated in the brain during the pathology of experimental cerebral malaria

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 488, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 118-122

  Anand, Sripada Santosh ^a   Babu, Phanithi Prakash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; C Jun N terminal kinase (JNK); Cerebral malaria; Flouro Jade B; Neuronal cell death

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 4; PROTEIN; PROTEIN C JUN; PROTEIN JNK; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MALARIA, CEREBRAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 78650708680     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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