Expression of FAC1 in activated microglia during Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 163-166

  Bowser, Robert ^a   Reilly, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Astrocyte; Confocal microscopy; Cortex; Microglia; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; ASTROCYTES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032480354     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00636-3     Document Type: Article

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