Components of the basal lamina and dystrophin-dystroglycan complex in the neurointermediate lobe of rat pituitary gland: Different localizations of β-dystroglycan, dystrobrevins, α1-syntrophin, and aquaporin-4

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 463-479

  Pócsai, Károly ^a   Bagyura, Zsolt ^a   Kálmán, Mihály ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Agrin; Intermediate lobe; Laminin; Neurohypophysis; Perlecan

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; AQUAPORIN 4; BETA DYSTROGLYCAN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; DYSTROBREVIN; DYSTROGLYCAN; DYSTROPHIN; FIBRONECTIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; LAMININ; PERLECAN; SYNTROPHIN; UTROPHIN; AQP4 PROTEIN, RAT; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; DYSTROPHIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; SYNTROPHIN ALPHA1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INVAGINATION; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 4; AXONS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DYSTROGLYCANS; DYSTROPHIN; DYSTROPHIN-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LAMININ; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY GLAND, INTERMEDIATE; PITUITARY GLAND, POSTERIOR; RATS; UTROPHIN;

EID: 77951908341     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.2010.954768     Document Type: Article

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