Anti-apoptotic BCL-2 family proteins in acute neural injury

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Anilkumar, Ujval ^a   Prehn, Jochen H M ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; BCL 2; Excitotoxcity; Ischemia; Mitochondria; Neurodegeneration; Neuronal development; Neuronal injury

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL W; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN MCL 1; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR STRESS SIGNAL; DNA DAMAGE; EXCITOTOXICITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; ISCHEMIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

EID: 84907481151     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00281     Document Type: Review

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