Single intracranial injection of apotransferrin in young rats increases the expression of specific myelin protein mRNA

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 603-608

  Cabrera, Oscar Enrique Escobar ^a   Zakin, Mario Manuel ^b   Soto, Eduardo Francisco ^a   Pasquini, Juana Maria ^a,c  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

iron; myelin proteins; myelination; oligodendrocytes; transferrin

Indexed keywords

2',3' CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE 3' PHOSPHODIESTERASE; APOTRANSFERRIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; MYELIN PROTEIN; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MYELINATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

2',3'-CYCLIC-NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN; DNA PROBES; MICROINJECTIONS; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; MYELIN PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0030968309     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19970315)47:6<603::AID-JNR5>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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