Upregulation of F-actin and α-Actinin in reactive astrocytes

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 608-616

  Abd El Basset, Ebtesam M ^a   Fedoroff, Sergey ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actin binding proteins; Astroglia; Brain injury; Cell motility; Microfilaments

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ALPHA ACTININ; F ACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN INJURY; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROFILAMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION;

ACTININ; ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0030828895     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19970901)49:5<608::AID-JNR11>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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