Aggregates of mutant protein appear progressively in dendrites, in periaxonal processes of oligodendrocytes, and in neuronal and astrocytic perikarya of mice expressing the SOD1(G93A) mutation of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 114-123

  Stieber, Anna ^a   Gonatas, Jacqueline O ^a   Gonatas, Nicholas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neurites; Neuronal death; SOD1(G93A)

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; DENDRITE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; DENDRITES; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; SPINAL CORD; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0034662807     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(00)00351-8     Document Type: Article

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