Prenatal cocaine delays astroglial maturation: Immunodensitometry shows increased markers of immaturity (vimentin and GAP-43) and decreased proliferation and production of the growth factor S-100

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 268-273

  Clarke, Colin ^a   Clarke, Kara ^a   Muneyyirci, Jennifer ^a   Azmitia, Efrain ^b   Whitaker Azmitia, Patricia M ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BrdU; Cocaine; GAP 43; Gliogenesis; Prenatal; S 100; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; NEUROMODULIN; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIVISION; COCAINE; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; GAP-43 PROTEIN; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NARCOTICS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; S100 PROTEINS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0030043034     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(95)00192-1     Document Type: Article

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