A neurotoxic prion protein fragment enhances proliferation of microglia but not astrocytes in culture

GLIA

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-67

  Brown, David R ^a   Schmidt, Bernhard ^a   Kretzschmar, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gliosis; Peptide toxicity; PrP knockout mice; Scrapie

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROTOXIN; PEPTIDE; PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; DRUG EFFECT; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; STIMULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICE; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PEPTIDES; PRPSC PROTEINS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0030250917     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1136(199609)18:1<59::AID-GLIA6>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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