Common myofibroblastic features of newborn rat astrocytes and cirrhotic rat liver stellate cells in early cultures and in vivo

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 317-327

  Buniatian, Gayane Hrachia ^a,c   Gebhardt, Rolf ^b   Mecke, Dieter ^a   Traub, Peter ^c   Wiesinger, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood tissue barrier; Brain; Intermediate filaments; Perivascular cells; Smooth muscle alpha actin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; DESMIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STELLATE CELL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; DESMIN; FIBROBLASTS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MUSCLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032814862     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-0186(99)00071-6     Document Type: Article

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