Stage dependent effects of progesterone on motoneurons and glial cells of wobbler mouse spinal cord degeneration

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-135

  Meyer, Maria ^a   Gonzalez Deniselle, Maria Claudia ^a,b   Garay, Laura I ^a,b   Monachelli, Gisella Gargiulo ^a   Lima, Analia ^a   Roig, Paulina ^a   Guennoun, Rachida ^c   Schumacher, Michael ^c   De Nicola, Alejandro F ^a  

^a Laboratorio de Bioquimica Neuroendócrina ^*  (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Glutamine synthetase; Neurodegeneration; Neuroprotection; Progesterone; Wobbler

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROMODULIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CHRONOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLIA CELL; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; WILD TYPE; WOBBLER MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; ASTROCYTES; CELL COUNT; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GAP-43 PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROGLIA; PROGESTERONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

MUS;

EID: 76749135687     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-009-9437-8     Document Type: Article

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