Deletion of astrocyte connexins 43 and 30 leads to a dysmyelinating phenotype and hippocampal CA1 vacuolation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 7743-7752

  Lutz, Sarah E ^a   Zhao, Yongmei ^a   Gulinello, Maria ^a   Lee, Sunhee C ^a   Raine, Cedric S ^a   Brosnan, Celia F ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 43; MYELIN;

AGING; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; ASTROCYTE; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAP JUNCTION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE; MYELIN DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPSE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 67449119205     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0341-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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