Role of microglia in neuronal cell death in prion disease

Brain Pathology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 449-457

  Giese, Armin ^a   Brown, David R ^a   Groschup, Martin H ^b   Feldmann, Claudia ^a   Haist, Ingrid ^a   Kretzschmar, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCRAPIE AGENT;

EID: 0031803512     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.1998.tb00167.x     Document Type: Article

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