Exaggerated astrocyte reactivity after nigrostriatal deafferentation in the aged rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 106-119

  Gordon, Marcia N ^a   Schreier, Wayne A ^a,b   Ou, Xiaorong ^a,c   Holcomb, Leigh A ^a   Morgan, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Dade International Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

6 hydroxydopamine; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Glutamine synthetase; Neostriatum; S 100 protein

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; OXIDOPAMINE; PROTEIN S 100; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STAB WOUND;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN INJURIES; CORPUS STRIATUM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; OXIDOPAMINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; S100 PROTEINS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 0030722556     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19971110)388:1<106::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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