Role of glial filaments in cells and tumors of glial origin: A review

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 420-430

  Rutka, James T ^a   Murakami, Masaji ^a   Dirks, Peter B ^a   Hubbard, Sherri Lynn ^a   Becker, Laurence E ^a   Fukuyama, Kozo ^a   Jung, Shin ^a   Tsugu, Atsushi ^a   Matsuzawa, Kazuhito ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Cytoskeleton intermediate filament; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Glial filament; Kinase; Phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; AMINO ACID; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CYTOKINE; DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; KERATIN; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PERIPHERIN; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIMENTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOMA; ASTROCYTOSIS; CELL ADHESION; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR;

EID: 0030855172     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1997.87.3.0420     Document Type: Article

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