Long-term cultured astrocytes inhibit myelin formation, but not axonal growth in the co-cultured nerve tissue

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 91-95

  Ishikawa, Mikio ^a   Tsukamoto, Tetsuro ^a   Yamamoto, Teiji ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocyte culture; Astrogliosis; Multiple sclerosis; Myelin formation; Organotypic nerve tissue culture; Remyelination

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MYELIN PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CEREBELLUM; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MYELIN PROTEINS; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0030225068     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135245859600200206     Document Type: Article

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