Nuclear envelope breakdown is a prominent feature in spinal motor neurons of wasted mice

Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 159-162

  Ueda, Hideho ^a   Tezuka, Hideo ^b   Nakamura, Akinori ^c  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motor neuron; Motor neuron disease; Nuclear envelope breakdown (NEB); Spinal cord; Wasted mice

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLIA CELL; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MICROSCOPY; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3843099170     PISSN: 00445991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1267/ahc.37.159     Document Type: Article

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