Visualizing cell death in experimental focal cerebral ischemia: Promises, problems, and perspectives

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 213-231

  Zille, Marietta ^a   Farr, Tracy D ^a   Przesdzing, Ingo ^a   Müller, Jochen ^a   Sommer, Clemens ^b   Dirnagl, Ulrich ^a   Wunder, Andreas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

apoptosis; cell death; cerebral ischemia; necrosis; neuroimaging; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALPAIN; CASPASE 10; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CATHEPSIN; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; LIPOCORTIN 5; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE 1; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ASSAY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MITOCHONDRION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DEATH; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY; STROKE;

EID: 84856460696     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2011.150     Document Type: Review

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