Hormetic effects of acute methylmercury exposure on GRP78 expression in rat brain cortex

Dose-Response

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-120

  Zhang, Ye ^a   Lu, Rongzhu ^a   Liu, Wenshuai ^a   Wu, Ying ^a   Qian, Hai ^a   Zhao, Xiaowu ^a   Wang, Suhua ^a   Xing, Guangwei ^a   Yu, Feng ^a   Aschner, Michael ^b  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Endoplasmic reticulum stress; GRP78; Methylmercury; Rat

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 78; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLMERCURY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84874029223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15593258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.11-055.Rongzhu     Document Type: Article

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