Astrocyte-Specific but Not Neuron-Specific Transmembrane TNF Triggers Inflammation and Degeneration in the Central Nervous System of Transgenic Mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 438-445

  Akassoglou, Katerina ^a   Probert, Lesley ^a   Kontogeorgos, George ^b   Kollias, George ^a  

^a HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0030639621     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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