Extensive loss of connexins in Baló's disease: Evidence for an auto-antibody-independent astrocytopathy via impaired astrocyte-oligodendrocyte/ myelin interaction

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 887-900

  Masaki, Katsuhisa ^a   Suzuki, Satoshi O ^a   Matsushita, Takuya ^a   Yonekawa, Tomomi ^a   Matsuoka, Takeshi ^a   Isobe, Noriko ^a   Motomura, Kyoko ^a   Wu, Xiao Mu ^b   Tabira, Takeshi ^c   Iwaki, Toru ^a   Kira, Jun ichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital   (China)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aquaporin 4; Bal 's concentric sclerosis; Connexin; Multiple sclerosis; Neuromyelitis optica

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; AUTOANTIBODY; CD68 ANTIGEN; CLAUDIN 11; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MYELIN; MYELIN ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN NOGO A;

ADULT; AGED; ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DEMYELINATION; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AQUAPORIN 4; ASTROCYTES; AUTOANTIBODIES; CONNEXINS; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIFFUSE CEREBRAL SCLEROSIS OF SCHILDER; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN PROTEINS; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELIN-ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866430822     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-012-0972-x     Document Type: Article

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