Immunocytochemical characterization of a new marker of fibrous and reactive astrocytes

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 39-49

  Ridet, Jean Luc ^a   Alonso, Gérard ^a   Chauvet, Norbert ^a   Chapron, Jacqueline ^b   Koenig, Jeanine ^b   Privat, Alain ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Diencephalon; Mab 6.17; Rat (Sprague Dawley); Reactive astrocyte; Spinal cord; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN FORNIX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROGLIA; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STAB WOUND; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030070323     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050510     Document Type: Article

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