Astrocytic intermediate filaments: Lessons from GFAP and vimentin knock-out mice

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 132, Issue , 2001, Pages 23-30

  Pekny, Milos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL INTERACTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0035783778     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(01)32062-9     Document Type: Article

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