Plectin in the human central nervous system: Predominant expression at pia/glia and endothelia/glia interfaces

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-221

  Lie, Ailing A ^a   Schröder, Rolf ^a,b,c   Blümcke, Ingmar ^a   Magin, Thomas M ^b,c   Wiestler, Otmar D ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Bonner Forum Biomedizin ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Blood brain barrier; Cortex; Hippocampus; Intermediate filaments

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOPSY; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CASE REPORT; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA SIMPLEX; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROGLIA; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PIA MATER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HAMARTOMA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYOCARDIUM; NEOCORTEX; NEUROGLIA; PIA MATER; PLECTIN; RATS;

EID: 0031686709     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050885     Document Type: Article

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