Patterns of cell death in the perinatal mouse forebrain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 525, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 47-64

  Mosley, Morgan ^a   Shah, Charisma ^a   Morse, Kiriana A ^b   Miloro, Stephen A ^b   Holmes, Melissa M ^c   Ahern, Todd H ^b   Forger, Nancy G ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

activated caspase 3; bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; brain development; cell death; cingulate; hippocampus; hypothalamus; nucleus accumbens; oriens; RRID:AB_2109645; RRID:AB_2298772; RRID:AB_231409; RRID:AB_2314667

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAX; BAX PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FOREBRAIN; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PROSENCEPHALON;

EID: 84978306050     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.24041     Document Type: Article

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