Acidic calponin immunoreactivity in postnatal rat brain and cultures: Subcellular localization in growth cones, under the plasma membrane and along actin and glial filaments

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2801-2812

  Plantier, Marc ^a   Fattoum, Abdellatif ^b   Menn, Bénédicte ^c   Ben Ari, Yehezkel ^a   Der Terrossian, Elisabeth ^a   Represa, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Development; GFAP; Microfilaments; Radial glia; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CALPONIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GLIA CELL; GROWTH CONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MALE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MICROFILAMENT; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

ACIDS; ACTINS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; GROWTH CONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; NEUROGLIA; RATS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032816798     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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