Apolipoprotein d gene expression in the rat brain and light and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry of apolipoprotein D expression in the cerebellum of neonatal, immature and adult rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 913-922

  Ong, W Y ^d   Lau, C P ^a   Leong, S K ^a   Kumar, U ^b   Suresh, S ^c   Patel, S C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Neurobiology Research Laboratory   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Apolipoprotein D; Cerebellum; Development; Glia; Purkinje neuron; Rat brain

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN D; MESSENGER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; IMMATURITY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOLIPOPROTEINS; APOLIPOPROTEINS D; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032948233     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00507-7     Document Type: Article

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