Laser microdissection reveals regional and cellular differences in GFAP mRNA upregulation following brain injury, axonal denervation, and amyloid plaque deposition

GLIA

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 76-84

  Burbach, Guido J ^a   Dehn, Doris ^a   Del Turco, Domenico ^a   Staufenbiel, Matthias ^b   Deller, Thomas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; APP transgenic mice; Astrogliosis; Entorhinal cortex lesion; Quantitative RT PCR

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN INJURY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; INJURY; LASER; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; SENILE PLAQUE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; BRAIN INJURIES; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DENERVATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LASERS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SENILE PLAQUES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 6044242247     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.20057     Document Type: Article

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