Absence of glial fibrillary acidic protein and vimentin prevents hypertrophy of astrocytic processes and improves post-traumatic regeneration

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 5016-5021

  Wilhelmsson, Ulrika ^a   Li, Lizhen ^a   Pekna, Marcela ^a   Berthold, Claes Henric ^a   Blom, Sofia ^a   Eliasson, Camilla ^a   Renner, Oliver ^d   Bushong, Eric ^c   Ellisman, Mark ^c   Morgan, Todd E ^b   Pekny, Milos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Endothelin B receptor; GFAP; Hippocampus; Intermediate filaments; Regeneration; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN B RECEPTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GLIA CELL; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTROPHY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOUSE; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; STROKE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN INJURIES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTROPHY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE REGENERATION; RECEPTOR, ENDOTHELIN B; UP-REGULATION; VIMENTIN;

EID: 2542512476     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0820-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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