Electron microscopic evidence for microglial phagocytic activity and cholinergic cell death after administration of the immunotoxin 192IgG- saporin in rat

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 465-476

  Seeger, Gudrun ^a   Härtig, Wolfgang ^a   Roßner, Steffen ^a   Schliebs, Reinhard ^a   Brückner, Gert ^a   Bigl, Volker ^a   Brauer, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

immunotoxin; lectin binding; microglia; phagocytosis; rat basal forebrain; ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOTOXIN; IMMUNOTOXIN 192 IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SAPORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL DEATH; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; IMMUNOTOXINS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LECTINS; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NEURONS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS;

EID: 1842298734     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19970601)48:5<465::AID-JNR7>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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