Abnormalities in the axonal cytoskeleton induced by a connexin32 mutation in nerve xenografts

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 174-184

  Sahenk, Zarife ^a   Chen, Lei ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal cytoskeleton; Connexin32; Hereditary neuropathies; Schwann cell axon interactions; Schwann cells

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 32;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; GAP JUNCTION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; CONNEXINS; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, SMOOTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICROTUBULES; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SCHWANN CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0032518362     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19980115)51:2<174::AID-JNR6>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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