Engulfment of cerebral apoptotic bodies controls the course of prion disease in a mouse strain-dependent manner

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 207, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2271-2281

  Kranich, Jan ^a,b   Krautler, Nike Julia ^a   Falsig, Jeppe ^a   Ballmer, Boris ^a   Li, Shulei ^a   Hutter, Gregor ^a,d   Schwarz, Petra ^a   Moos, Rita ^a   Julius, Christian ^a   Miele, Gino ^a,c   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTADHERIN; PRION PROTEIN;

129 MOUSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN SLICE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MARKER GENE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROGLIA; MILK PROTEINS; PRION DISEASES; PRPSC PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77957733643     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20092401     Document Type: Article

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