Prenatal low-dose X-irradiation affects connexins 43 and 26 in developing mouse neocortex

Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 223-228

  Yamanaka, Takumi ^a   Itoh, Kyoko ^a   Yaoi, Takeshi ^a   Nojima, Kumie ^b   Ohta, Yoshimi ^a   Fujiwara, Yasuhiro ^a   Mineura, Katsuyoshi ^a   Fushiki, Shinji ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Connexins; Development; Immunohistochemistry; X rays

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FETUS; HISTOGENESIS; IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IONIZING RADIATION; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; TELENCEPHALON; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; X IRRADIATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 23744479820     PISSN: 00445991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1267/ahc.38.223     Document Type: Article

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