Altered mitochondrial apoptotic pathway in placentas from undernourished rat gestations

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 301, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1599-1615

  Belkacemi, Louiza ^a   Desai, Mina ^a   Nelson, D Michael ^b   Ross, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

IUGR; Maternal undernutrition; Placenta; PPAR

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CYTOCHROME C; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CYTOCHROMES C; CYTOSOL; DIET; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MITOCHONDRIA; PLACENTA; PPAR GAMMA; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 82755192281     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00100.2011     Document Type: Article

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