Ultrastructural changes in cerebral capillary pericytes in aged Notch3 mutant transgenic mice

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-55

  Gu, Xin ^a   Liu, Xiao Yun ^a   Fagan, Austin ^b   Gonzalez Toledo, Maria E ^a   Zhao, Li Ru ^b  

^a Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Notch 3; pericyte; transmission electron microscope; vascular smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CADASIL; CAPILLARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PERICYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CADASIL; CAPILLARIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PERICYTES; RECEPTORS, NOTCH;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84863015729     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913123.2011.620220     Document Type: Article

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