Human APOE protein localized in brains of transgenic mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-59

  Bowman, Barbara H ^a   Yang, Funmei ^a   Buchanan, James M ^a   Adrian, Gwendolyn S ^a   Martinez, Andrew O ^b   Jansen, Laila ^a   Zhao, Ming ^a   Atherton, Sally L ^a   Hixson, James E ^c  

^a Univ of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr at S ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Human apolipoprotein E; Immunoblot; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

EID: 0030589145     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13166-9     Document Type: Article

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