Neuroprotective effect of the immune system in a mouse model of severe dysmyelinating hereditary neuropathy: Enhanced axonal degeneration following disruption of the RAG-1 gene

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 118-127

  Berghoff, Martin ^a   Samsam, Mohtashem ^a   Müller, Marcus ^b   Kobsar, Igor ^a   Toyka, Klaus V ^a   Kiefer, Reinhard ^b   Mäurer, Mathias ^a   Martini, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; RAG1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC DISORDER; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MUTANT; MYELIN DEFICIENCY; NERVE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENES, RAG-1; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYELIN P0 PROTEIN; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TIBIAL NERVE; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 10644221249     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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