Expression of the prion protein in the rat forebrain - An immunohistochemical study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-12

  Tan, Jun ^a   Town, Terrence ^a   Placzek, Andon ^a   Kundtz, Amy ^a   Yu, Hua ^b   Mullan, Michael ^a  

^a ROSKAMP INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Blood vessels; Brain; Circumventricular organs; Prion; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSEL; GLIA; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRION DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PRION DISEASES; PROSENCEPHALON; PRPC PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0033520150     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00563-7     Document Type: Article

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