Histopathological and ultrastructural features of feline hereditary cerebellar cortical atrophy: A novel animal model of human spinocerebellar degeneration

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 379-387

  Aye, Moe Moe ^a,b   Izumo, Shuji ^a   Inada, Shichiro ^a   Isashiki, Yasushi ^a   Yamanaka, Hidekata ^b   Matsumuro, Kenji ^b   Kawasaki, Yasuaki ^a   Sawashima, Yuko ^c   Fujiyama, Jiro ^b   Arimura, Kimiyoshi ^b   Osame, Mitsuhiro ^b  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Sawashima Animal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; Distal dendrite; Electron microscopy; Purkinje cell; Spinocerebellar degeneration

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CAT; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; DENDRITE; DENSITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; GLIA CELL; GRANULAR CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; QUANTITATIVE HISTOCHEMISTRY; SPINAL CORD; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASES; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS;

EID: 0031659294     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050908     Document Type: Article

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