Presence of aquaporin-4 and muscarinic receptors in astrocytes and ependymal cells in rat brain: A clue to a common function?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 75-78

  Badaut, Jérôme ^a   Verbavatz, Jean Marc ^b   Freund Mercier, Marie José ^a   Lasbennes, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Aquaporin 4; Astrocytes; Corpus callosum; Cortex; Ependymal cells; Immunohistochemistry; Muscarinic receptors; Rat brain

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; EPENDYMA CELL; FLUID BALANCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORINS; ASTROCYTES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EPENDYMA; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0034613453     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01364-1     Document Type: Article

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