Survival of adult neurons lacking cholesterol synthesis in vivo

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fünfschilling, Ursula ^a   Saher, Gesine ^a   Xiao, Le ^a   Möbius, Wiebke ^a   Nave, Klaus Armin ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; SQUALENE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GLIA CELL; GRANULE CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHOLESTEROL; FARNESYL-DIPHOSPHATE FARNESYLTRANSFERASE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS;

EID: 33846565903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-1     Document Type: Article

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