Absence of nigrostriatal degeneration in LEC rats up to 20 weeks of age

Neurological Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 409-411

  Ahn, Tae Beom ^a,b   Cho, Sa Sun ^b   Kim, Dong Woon ^b   Jeon, Beom S ^b,c  

^a Kyung Hee University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Long Evans Cinnamon rat; Neurodegeneration; Nigrostriatal system; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER METABOLISM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GENETIC DISORDER; GLIOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STRIATONIGRAL DEGENERATION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILSON DISEASE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; CORPUS STRIATUM; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE DEGENERATION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEC; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 19544380398     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164105X48851     Document Type: Article

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