Focal degeneration of astrocytes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1691-1700

  Rossi, D ^a   Brambilla, L ^a   Valori, C F ^a   Roncoroni, C ^a   Crugnola, A ^a   Yokota, T ^b   Bredesen, D E ^b   Volterra, A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GLUTAMIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 5;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITOTOXICITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CASPASE 3; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTANT PROTEINS; PYRIDINES; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 54049106867     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2008.99     Document Type: Article

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