Deletion of oligodendrocyte Cx32 and astrocyte Cx43 causes white matter vacuolation, astrocyte loss and early mortality

GLIA

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1064-1074

  Magnotti, Laura M ^a   Goodenough, Daniel A ^a   Paul, David L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Connexin; Cx32; Cx43; Cx47; Gap junction; Myelin; Oligodendrocytes

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MYELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL DEATH; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; OLIGODENDROGLIA; SEIZURES;

EID: 79955819402     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.21179     Document Type: Article

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