Activation of caspase-3 and c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase signaling pathways involving heroin-induced neuronal apoptosis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 502, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 209-213

  Lai, Bingquan ^a   Pu, Hongwei ^b   Cao, Qinghua ^c   Jing, Hualan ^a   Liu, Xiaoshan ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cerebellar granule cell; Heroin; JNK pathway

Indexed keywords

ANTHRA[1,9 CD]PYRAZOL 6(2H) ONE; CASPASE 3; DIAMORPHINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; Z VAD;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GRANULE CELL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CEREBELLUM; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HEROIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 8; NARCOTICS; NEURONS; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 80052344044     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.07.046     Document Type: Article

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