Spumiform basement membrane aberrations in the microvasculature of the midbrain periaqueductal gray region in hamster: Rostro-caudal pathogenesis?

Neuroscience

Volumn 228, Issue , 2013, Pages 128-138

  Gerrits, P O ^a   Kortekaas, R ^a   de Weerd, H ^a   Luiten, P G M ^b   Van der Want, J J L ^a   Veening, J G ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(micro) vascular degeneration; Aging; Basement membrane; Blood brain barrier; Capillary; Spumiform basement membrane degeneration

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN REGION; CAPILLARY BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; MESENCEPHALON; MICROANGIOPATHY; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPUMIFORM BASEMENT MEMBRANE DEGENERATION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; MESENCEPHALON; MESOCRICETUS; MICROVESSELS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY;

EID: 84868544118     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.10.021     Document Type: Article

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