Mechanisms for the maintenance and eventual degradation of neurofilament proteins in the distal segments of severed goldfish Mauthner axons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1605-1613

  Raabe, Tim D ^a   Nguyen, Tri ^a   Archer, Cullen ^a   Bittner, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

axotomy; calpain; goldfish Mauthner axon; neurofilament protein; phosphorylation; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLDFISH; MAUTHNER CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE LESION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

EID: 0029866765     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-05-01605.1996     Document Type: Article

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