Effects of Postmortem Interval on Biomolecule Integrity in the Brain

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 459-469

  Nagy, Corina ^a,b   Maheu, Marissa ^a,b   Lopez, Juan Pablo ^a,b   Vaillancourt, Kathryn ^a,b   Cruceanu, Cristiana ^a,b   Gross, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Arnovitz, Mitchell ^b   Mechawar, Naguib ^a,b   Turecki, Gustavo ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain tissue; Chromatin; Integrity; miRNA; mRNA; Postmortem interval; Protein

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RNA DEGRADATION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; MICRORNAS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84931023395     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: 15546578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NEN.0000000000000190     Document Type: Article

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