Microglial reactions to retrograde degeneration of tracer-identified thalamic neurons after frontal sensorimotor cortex lesions in adult rats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-212

  Sorensen J C ^a   Dalmau, I ^b   Zimmer, J ^c   Finsen, B ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fluorogold; Neurodegeneration; Perivascular cells; Phagocytosis; Rat; Retrograde neuronal cell death

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACID ANHYDRIDE HYDROLASES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ASTROCYTES; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STILBAMIDINES; THALAMUS;

EID: 0029824737     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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