Establishment and characterization of spontaneously immortalized Schwann cells from murine model of globoid cell leukodystrophy (twitcher)

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 588-594

  Shen, Jin Song ^a,b   Watabe, Kazuhiko ^b   Meng, Xing Li ^a   Ida, Hiroyuki ^a   Ohashi, Toya ^a   Eto, Yoshikatsu ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; Galactosylceramidase; Galactosylceramide; Psychosine; Retrovirus

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYLCERAMIDASE; PSYCHOSINE; RETROVIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL INCLUSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL GANGLION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDASE; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDES; INCLUSION BODIES; LEUKODYSTROPHY, GLOBOID CELL; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOSINE; SCHWANN CELLS;

EID: 0036605564     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10247     Document Type: Article

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