Immunohistochemical determination of the Wilson Copper-transporting P- type ATPase in the brain tissues of the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-16

  Saito, Takeshi ^a   Okabe, Masashi ^b   Hosokawa, Toshiyuki ^b   Kurasaki, Masaaki ^b   Hata, Akira ^c   Endo, Fumio ^d   Nagano, Koji ^d   Matsuda, Ichiro ^d   Urakami, Ken Ichi ^e   Saito, Kazuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e TERUMO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

ATP7B; Brain; Copper transport; Histochemistry; Wilson disease

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; COPPER; GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WILSON DISEASE;

EID: 0345280020     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00258-X     Document Type: Article

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