Live astrocytes visualized by green fluorescent protein in transgenic mice

Developmental Biology

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-42

  Zhuo, Lang ^a   Sun, Biao ^b   Zhang, Chuan Li ^b   Fine, Alan ^c   Chiu, Shing Yan ^b   Messing, Albee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGENERATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031193324     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8601     Document Type: Article

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