Connexin-43 in rat spinal cord: Localization in astrocytes and identification of heterotypic astro-oligodendrocytic gap junctions

Neuroscience

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 931-945

  Ochalski, P A Y ^a   Frankenstein, U N ^a   Hertzberg, E L ^b   Nagy, J I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; ependymal cells; glia limitans; heterologous glial coupling; oligodendrocytes; radial astrocytes

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPENDYMA CELL; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030580559     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00394-6     Document Type: Article

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