Age-related decline of myelin proteins is highly correlated with activation of astrocytes and microglia in the rat CNS

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1021-1028

  Xie, Fang ^a,b   Zhang, Jiu Cong ^c   Fu, Han ^a   Chen, Jun ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^c LANZHOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Astrocyte; Central nervous system; Mapping; Microglia; Myelin proteins

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IONIZED CALCIUM BINDING ADAPTOR MOLECULE 1; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; MYELIN OLIGODENDROCYTE GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOWN REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGLIA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; MYELIN PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84885046960     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2013.1486     Document Type: Article

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