A transgenic mouse model for the detailed morphological study of astrocytes

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 451-454

  Suzuki, Ryusuke ^a,b   Watanabe, Jun ^a,b   Arata, Satoru ^a   Funahashi, Hisayuki ^a   Kikuyama, Sakae ^b   Shioda, Seiji ^a,c  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Brain; EGFP; GFAP; Immunohistochemistry; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0242636476     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2003.08.008     Document Type: Article

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