Aspartoacylase gene knockout results in severe vacuolation in the white matter and gray matter of the spinal cord in the mouse

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 385-389

  Surendran, Sankar ^a   Campbell, Gerald A ^a   Tyring, Stephen K ^b   Matalon, Reuben ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartoacylase; Canavan disease; Gray matter; Knockout mouse; Spinal cord vacuolation; Spongiform degeneration; White matter

Indexed keywords

ASPARTOACYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANAVAN DISEASE; CELL VACUOLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GRAY MATTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT GENE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 15944417458     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2004.10.014     Document Type: Article

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