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Aline Ahrens

CNTF-Expression in Tiermodellen für Chorea Huntington

Universität Rostock, 2008

https://doi.org/10.18453/rosdok_id00000479

Abstract: We investigated the CNTF content in the QA-lesioned rat striatum for at least 1 month using immunohistochemistry and Western blot analysis. In lesioned striata a neuronal loss was observed by Nissl staining and by a reduction of NeuN immunoreactive cells, whereas increased glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoreactivity showed a gliotic reaction. With CNTF immunohistochemistry we found that in the QA-lesioned striatum CNTF was increased over time. CNTF-immunoreactive cells had the morphology of protoplasmatic astrocytes. Furthermore, quantitative Western blotting demonstrated that the content of CNTF protein from striatal lysates 1 month after QA lesioning was significantly increased compared with sham-lesioned hemispheres and intact controls.

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