Evidence for prion protein expression in enteroglial cells of the myenteric plexus of mouse intestine

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 17-23

  Albanese, Valeria ^a,b   Lawson, Victoria A ^c   Hill, Andrew F ^c,e   Cappai, Roberto ^c   Di Guardo, Giovanni ^d   Staikopoulos, Vasiliki ^a   Thacker, Michelle ^a   Furness, John B ^a   Chiocchetti, Roberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Enteric nervous system; Immunohistochemistry; Mouse; Prion

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEUROGLIA; PRION DISEASES; PRPC PROTEINS; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 44649184903     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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