Neuropil and neuronal changes in hippocampal NADPH-diaphorase histochemistry in the ME7 model of murine prion disease

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 292-303

  Picanco Diniz C W ^a   Boche, D ^b   Gomes Leal, W ^a   Perry, V H ^b   Cunningham, C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Neurodegeneration; Nitric oxide; Peroxynitrite; Scrapie

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; DENSITOMETRY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NEURONS; NEUROPIL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PRION DISEASES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SYNAPSES; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 2942707869     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2004.00537.x     Document Type: Article

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