Calpains are downstream effectors of bax-dependent excitotoxic apoptosis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1847-1858

  D'Orsi, Beatrice ^a   Bonner, Helena ^a   Tuffy, Liam P ^a,c   Düssmann, Heiko ^a   Woods, Ina ^a   Courtney, Michael J ^b   Ward, Manus W ^a,d   Prehn, Jochen H M ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN 1; CALPAIN 2; CALPASTATIN; CALPEPTIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BAX GENE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCITOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NECROSIS; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CALPAIN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; DIPEPTIDES; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; N-METHYLASPARTATE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84856630452     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2345-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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