Appearance of phagocytic microglia adjacent to motoneurons in spinal cord tissue from a presymptomatic transgenic rat model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2736-2746

  Sanagi, Tomomi ^a   Yuasa, Shigeki ^a   Nakamura, Yasuko ^a   Suzuki, Eri ^a   Aoki, Masashi ^b   Warita, Hitoshi ^b   Itoyama, Yasuto ^b   Uchino, Shigeo ^a   Kohsaka, Shinichi ^a   Ohsawa, Keiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Microglia; Mutant SOD1; Phagocytosis

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; ED1 PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TRANSGENIC RAT;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; SPINAL CORD; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 77955506963     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22424     Document Type: Article

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