Astrocytic hypertrophy and altered GFAP degradation with age in subcortical white matter of the rhesus monkey

Brain Research

Volumn 862, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-10

  Sloane, Jacob A ^a   Hollander, William ^a   Rosene, Douglas L ^a,b   Moss, Mark B ^a,b   Kemper, Thomas ^a   Abraham, Carmela R ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Astrocytes; GFAP; Proteolysis; Rhesus monkey

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RHESUS MONKEY; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHITE MATTER;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; HYPERTROPHY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE FIBERS;

EID: 0034678867     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02059-X     Document Type: Article

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