Enhanced Histochemical Detection of Iron in Paraffin Sections of Mouse Central Nervous System Tissue: Application in the APP/PS1 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

ASN Neuro

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Sands, Scott A ^a   Leung Toung, Regis ^b   Wang, Yingsheng ^b   Connelly, John ^b   LeVine, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ApoPharma Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; APP PS1; ferric; histochemistry; iron; plaque

Indexed keywords

IRON; PARAFFIN; SODIUM AZIDE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; REHYDRATION; SENILE PLAQUE;

EID: 85009275008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17590914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1759091416670978     Document Type: Article

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