Stress mechanisms and the age-related increase of GFAP transcription in brain astrocytes

Developmental Brain Dysfunction

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 350-358

  Finch, Caleb E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; ESTROGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TYROSINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVIEW; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031545257     PISSN: 10195815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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