Histological and ultrastructural features in the early stage of Purkinje cell degeneration in the cerebellar calcification (CC) rat

Experimental Animals

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 81-88

  Ando, Yosuke ^a   Ichihara, Nobutsune ^b   Takeshita, Shigehito ^a   Saito, Yoshiaki ^c   Kikushi, Takeki ^d   Wakasugi, Noboru ^e  

^a DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HATANO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Calcification; Cerebellum; Glycoconjugate; Purkinje cell degeneration

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; GLYCOCONJUGATE; PHOSPHORUS; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CELL LOSS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; LYSOSOME; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MITOCHONDRION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; ANIMAL; BONE MINERALIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; RAT STRAIN; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ATAXIA;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE DEGENERATION; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION;

EID: 3142632213     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.53.81     Document Type: Article

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