Inflammation and susceptibility to neurodegeneration: The use of unbiased genetics to decipher critical regulatory pathways

Neuroscience

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1143-1150

  Piehl, F ^a   Olsson, T ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

axotomy; congenic; multiple sclerosis; neuroinflammation; QTL; rat

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INBRED STRAIN; INNATE IMMUNITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 59349112353     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.08.031     Document Type: Review

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