Reactive astrocytes form scar-like perivascular barriers to leukocytes during adaptive immune inflammation of the CNS

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 37, 2009, Pages 11511-11522

  Voskuhl, Rhonda R ^a   Peterson, R Scott ^a   Song, Bingbing ^a   Ao, Yan ^a   Morales, Laurie Beth J ^a   Tiwari Woodruff, Seema ^a   Sofroniew, Michael V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; WILD TYPE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD45; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; CELL COUNT; CICATRIX; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; THYMIDINE KINASE;

EID: 70349103383     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1514-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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