Prion disease development in slow Wallerian degeneration (WldS) mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 456, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-98

  Gültner, Sandra ^a   Laue, Michael ^a   Riemer, Constanze ^a   Heise, Ines ^a   Baier, Michael ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonal damage; Axoplasm; Myelin; Prion; Scrapie; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; AXOPLASM; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; GENE MUTATION; GLIA CELL; LYSOSOME; MOUSE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SCRAPIE; SURVIVAL TIME; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; SCRAPIE; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 64749094849     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.03.089     Document Type: Article

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