Adult human subventricular, subgranular, and subpial zones contain astrocytes with a specialized intermediate filament cytoskeleton

GLIA

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 289-300

  Roelofs, Reinko F ^a   Fischer, David F ^a,b   Houtman, Simone H ^a   Sluijs, Jacqueline A ^a   Van Haren, Wendy ^a   Van Leeuwen, Fred W ^a   Hol, Elly M ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer; Astrocytic stem cells; Astrogliosis; Ependyma; Multiple sclerosis intermediate filament cytoskeleton; Splicing

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN DELTA; ISOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CYTOSKELETON; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SPLICING; SUBGRANULAR ZONE; SUBPIAL ZONE; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOSKELETON; EPENDYMA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; PIA MATER; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS;

EID: 30444456264     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.20243     Document Type: Article

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