Increased neuronal apoptosis in medial prefrontal cortex is accompanied with changes of Bcl-2 and Bax in a rat model of post-traumatic stress disorder

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 127-137

  Li, Yana ^a,b   Han, Fang ^a   Shi, Yuxiu ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BINZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bax; Bcl 2; Medial prefrontal cortex; Neuronal apoptosis; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; HOE 33342; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STIMULATION; STRESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CORTICOSTERONE; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84882286719     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: 15591166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-013-9965-z     Document Type: Article

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