Therapy of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease in mice by feeding a cholesterol-enriched diet

Nature Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1130-1135

  Saher, Gesine ^a   Rudolphi, Fabian ^a   Corthals, Kristina ^a   Ruhwedel, Torben ^a   Schmidt, Karl Friedrich ^b   Löwel, Siegrid ^b   Dibaj, Payam ^a   Barrette, Benoit ^a   Möbius, Wiebke ^a   Nave, Klaus Armin ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; MYELIN; PROTEIN PLP1; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL INFILTRATION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOSIS; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MYELIN SHEATH; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE; PELIZAEUS-MERZBACHER DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84863726952     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2833     Document Type: Article

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