Increase in number of the gap junctions between satellite neuroglial cells during lifetime: An ultrastructural study in rabbit spinal ganglia from youth to extremely advanced age

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 19-23

  Martinelli, C ^a   Sartori, P ^a   De Palo, S ^a   Ledda, M ^a   Pannese, E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Dorsal root ganglia; Neuron glia interactions; Peripheral neuroglia

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM ION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL METABOLISM; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NERVE SHEATH; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PERINEURIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; SATELLITE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNAPSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GAP JUNCTIONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POTASSIUM; RABBITS; SATELLITE CELLS, PERINEURONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 24044535786     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2005.05.021     Document Type: Article

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