Alteration of iron regulatory proteins (IRP1 and IRP2) and ferritin in the brains of scrapie-infected mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 422, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 158-163

  Kim, Boe Hyun ^a   Jun, Yong Chul ^a   Jin, Jae Kwang ^a   Kim, Jae Il ^b   Kim, Nam Ho ^a   Leibold, Elizabeth A ^c   Connor, James R ^d   Choi, Eun Kyoung ^a   Carp, Richard I ^b   Kim, Yong Sun ^a  

^a Hallym University   (South Korea)

^b NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytosis; Ferritin; Iron regulatory proteins (IRPs); Neurodegeneration; Oxidative stress; Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs)

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON REGULATORY PROTEIN 1; IRON REGULATORY PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IRON METABOLISM; IRON RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCRAPIE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; FERRITINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRON; IRON REGULATORY PROTEIN 1; IRON REGULATORY PROTEIN 2; MALE; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRAPIE;

EID: 34447505975     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.05.061     Document Type: Article

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