Glial reaction in the hippocampal formation is highly correlated with aging in human brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 235, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 53-56

  David, Jean Philippe ^a,b   Ghozali, Farida ^a   Fallet Bianco, Catherine ^a   Wattez, Annick ^b   Delaine, Stéphanie ^c   Boniface, Brigitte ^c   Di Menza, Claude ^a   Delacourte, André ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Astrocytes; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CYTOSKELETON; DEMENTIA; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GLIA CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROGLIA; PARIETAL LOBE; SENILE PLAQUES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030833978     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00708-8     Document Type: Article

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