Evidence for a role of dystroglycan regulating the membrane architecture of astroglial endfeet

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2179-2186

  Noell, Susan ^a   Wolburg Buchholz, Karen ^b   Mack, Andreas F ^c   Beedle, Aaron M ^d   Satz, Jakob S ^d   Campbell, Kevin P ^d   Wolburg, Hartwig ^b   Fallier Becker, Petra ^b  

^a Tübingen School of Education   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquaporin 4; Astrocytes; Blood brain barrier; Freeze fracturing; Mice; Orthogonal arrays of particles

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DYSTROGLYCAN; AQUAPORIN 4; BETA DYSTROGLYCAN; CLAUDIN; CLAUDIN 3; DYSTROGLYCAN; DYSTROPHIN; OCCLUDIN; PROTEIN ZO1; SYNTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FREEZE FRACTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TIGHT JUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 79959331881     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07688.x     Document Type: Article

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