Association of microglia with amyloid plaques in brains of APP23 transgenic mice

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1673-1684

  Stalder, Martina ^a   Phinney, Amie ^a   Probst, Alphonse ^a   Sommer, Bernd ^b   Staufenbiel, Matthias ^b   Jucker, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE PLAQUE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0032983536     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)65423-5     Document Type: Article

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