Two types of aggregate in the cerebral cortex of a seizure-sensitive strain of the Mongolian gerbil

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 177-180

  Seto Ohshima, Akiko ^a,b   Katoh, Miyuki ^a   Yokota, Sadaki ^c   Karasawa, Nobuyuki ^d   Kawamura, Noriko ^a   Kitajima, Satoko ^a   Tsuzuki, Masako ^a   Yoshida, Koji ^e   Oh Ishi, Masamichi ^f   Murashima, Yoshiya L ^g   Onozuka, Minoru ^h   Kishikawa, Masao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b Inst Phys C   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^h GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorescent aggregate; Gerbil brain; P70

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN P70; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GERBIL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SEIZURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERBILLINAE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SEIZURES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0032720111     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00873-3     Document Type: Article

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