Astrogliosis in the brain of obese Zucker rat: A model of metabolic syndrome

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 543, Issue , 2013, Pages 136-141

  Tomassoni, Daniele ^a   Nwankwo, Innocent Ejike ^a   Gabrielli, Maria Gabriella ^a   Bhatt, Siddhartha ^b   Muhammad, Abdul Bari ^b   Lokhandwala, Mustafa F ^b   Tayebati, Seyed Khosrow ^a   Amenta, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrogliosis; Brain; Metabolic syndrome; Obese Zucker rats

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENTATE GYRUS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ZUCKER RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN; CHOLESTEROL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84877135040     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.03.025     Document Type: Article

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