Axonal swellings and degeneration in mice lacking the major proteolipid of myelin

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5369, 1998, Pages 1610-1613

  Griffiths, Ian ^a   Klugmann, Matthias ^b   Anderson, Thomas ^a   Yool, Donald ^a   Thomson, Christine ^a   Schwab, Markus H ^b   Schneider, Armin ^b   Zimmermann, Frank ^b   McCulloch, Mailise ^a   Nadon, Nancy ^c   Nave, Klaus Armin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; MOUSE; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYELIN PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE; ORGANELLES; SPINAL CORD; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032486428     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5369.1610     Document Type: Article

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