In vivo expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in supraventricular amoeboid microglial cells in neonatal BALB/c and athymic mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-56

  Htain, Wynn Wynn ^a   Leong, Seng Kee ^a   Ling, Eng Ang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Athymic; BALB c; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Mice; Microglia

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; MUTANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CYTOSOL; ENZYME INDUCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INTERFERON TYPE II; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PRECIPITIN TESTS;

EID: 0031043675     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13387-0     Document Type: Article

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