Rapid disease development in scrapie-infected mice deficient for CD40 ligand

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 527-531

  Burwinkel, Michael ^a   Schwarz, Anja ^a   Riemer, Constanze ^a   Schultz, Julia ^a   van Landeghem, Frank ^b   Baier, Michael ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer; CD40L; Prion; Scrapie

Indexed keywords

CD40 LIGAND;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; LIFESPAN; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NEUROPIL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCRAPIE; WILD TYPE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD40; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CD40 LIGAND; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 2942511695     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400125     Document Type: Article

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