Visualization and genetic modification of resident brain microglia using lentiviral vectors regulated by microRNA-9

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Åkerblom, Malin ^a   Sachdeva, Rohit ^a   Quintino, Luis ^b   Wettergren, Erika Elgstrand ^b   Chapman, Katie Z ^c   Manfre, Giuseppe ^b   Lindvall, Olle ^b   Lundberg, Cecilia ^b   Jakobsson, Johan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MICRORNA 9;

BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; LESION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; RNA; RODENT; VISUALIZATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DNA MODIFICATION; EXCITOTOXICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TRANSGENE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; LENTIVIRUS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROGLIA; MICRORNAS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PROVIRUSES; RATS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84877730401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2801     Document Type: Article

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