Morphological impairments in microglia precede age-related neuronal degeneration in senescence-accelerated mice

Neuropathology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-28

  Hasegawa Ishii, Sanae ^a,b   Takei, Shiro ^a   Chiba, Yoichi ^a   Furukawa, Ayako ^a   Umegaki, Hiroyuki ^b   Iguchi, Akihisa ^b   Kawamura, Noriko ^a   Yoshikawa, Keisuke ^a   Hosokawa, Masanori ^a   Shimada, Atsuyoshi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ageing; Animal model; Immunohistochemistry; Microglia; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGLIA; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE ACCELERATED MOUSE; TISSUE SECTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROGLIA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS;

EID: 78751498473     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2010.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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