Pregnenolone reverses the age-dependent accumulation of glial fibrillary acidic protein within astrocytes of specific regions of the rat brain

Brain Research

Volumn 802, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 125-133

  Legrand, Ariane ^a   Alonso, Gérard ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Immunocytochemistry; Neurosteroid; S100; Steroid hormone

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PREGNENOLONE; PROTEIN S 100;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL AGING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; PREGNENOLONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; S100 PROTEINS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0344653649     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00580-0     Document Type: Article

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