Quantitative assessment of glial cells in the human and guinea pig enteric nervous system with an anti-Sox8/9/10 antibody

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 509, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 356-371

  Hoff, Sebastian ^a   Zeller, Florian ^b   Von Weyhern, Claus Werner Hann ^a   Wegner, Michael ^c   Schemann, Michael ^a   Michel, Klaus ^a   Rühl, Anne ^a,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Clinical Centre Freising   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Enteric glial cells; Enteric nervous system; Glia index; Human pathology; Morphometry; Myenteric plexus; Submucous plexus

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MONOCLONA ANTIBODY SOX10; MONOCLONA ANTIBODY SOX8; MONOCLONA ANTIBODY SOX9; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN P75NGFR; PROTEIN S100B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLIA CELL; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COLON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEUROGLIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 48249102787     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21769     Document Type: Article

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