Glutamine synthetase in astrocytes from entorhinal cortex of the triple transgenic animal model of Alzheimer's disease is not affected by pathological progression

Biogerontology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 777-787

  Yeh, Chia Yu ^a   Verkhratsky, Alexei ^a,b,c,d   Terzieva, Slavica ^b,e,f   Rodríguez, José J ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^f Celica Biomedical Sciences Center   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Astrocytes; Entorhinal cortex; Excitotoxicity; Glutamate synthetase

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; ATROPHY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PRESENILIN-1; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84890556640     PISSN: 13895729     EISSN: 15736768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10522-013-9456-1     Document Type: Article

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