Brain abnormalities and glioma-like lesions in mice overexpressing the long isoform of PDGF-a in astrocytic cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Nazarenko, Inga ^a   Hedrén, Anna ^a   Sjödin, Hanna ^b   Orrego, Abiel ^a   Andrae, Johanna ^a   Afink, Gijs B ^c   Nistér, Monica ^a   Lindström, Mikael S ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ASTROCYTIC PROTEIN, MOUSE; ISOPROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NERVE PROTEIN; OLIG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR A; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR A; SOX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GLIOMA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79954517042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018303     Document Type: Article

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