The Neuron-Astrocyte-Microglia Triad in Normal Brain Ageing and in a Model of Neuroinflammation in the Rat Hippocampus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Cerbai, Francesca ^a   Lana, Daniele ^a   Nosi, Daniele ^a   Petkova Kirova, Polina ^b   Zecchi, Sandra ^a   Brothers, Holly M ^c   Wenk, Gary L ^c   Giovannini, Maria Grazia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOGENATE; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTES; CHEMOKINE CX3CL1; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 84866491240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045250     Document Type: Article

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