Neurodegeneration in the Niemann-Pick C mouse: Glial involvement

Neuroscience

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 437-450

  German, D C ^a   Liang, C L ^a   Song, T ^a   Yazdani, U ^a   Xie, C ^b   Dietschy, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Cathepsin D; Microglia; Purkinje cell; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN D; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LYSOSOME ENZYME;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INCLUSION; CELL LOSS; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATHEPSIN D; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROGLIA; NIEMANN-PICK DISEASES; PROTEINS; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 0037074932     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(01)00517-6     Document Type: Article

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