Brainstem neuropathology in a mouse model of Niemann-Pick disease type C

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 108-116

  Luan, Zhuo ^a   Saito, Yoshiaki ^a   Miyata, Hajime ^a   Ohama, Eisaku ^a   Ninomiya, Haruaki ^b   Ohno, Kousaku ^a  

^a Tottori University   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cochlear nucleus; Locus ceruleus; Niemann Pick disease type C; Rostral interstitial nucleus of the medial longitudinal fasciculus; Solitary tract nucleus; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN NPC1; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CELL COUNT; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN STEM; CELL COUNT; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; NIEMANN-PICK DISEASE, TYPE C; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PROTEINS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 40849118253     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.11.018     Document Type: Article

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