Article
Early onset of axonal degeneration in double (plp-/-mag-/-) and hypomyelinosis in triple (plp-/-mbp-/-mag-/-) mutant mice.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 15 Jul 2000
Uschkureit T, Sporkel O, Stracke J, Bussow H, Stoffel W
Abstract excerpt
Double (plp-/-mag-/-) and triple (plp-/-mbp-/-mag-/-) null-allelic mouse lines deficient in proteolipid protein (PLP), myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), and myelin basic protein (MBP) were generated and characterized genetically, biochemically, and morphologically including their behavioral capacities. The plp-/-mag-/- mutant develops a rapidly progressing axon degeneration in CNS with severe cognitive and...
Topics
- Animals
- Axons
- Behavior, Animal
- Central Nervous System
- Demyelinating Diseases
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Genotype
- Membrane Lipids
- Mice
- Mice, Neurologic Mutants
- Myelin Basic Protein
- Myelin Proteolipid Protein
- Myelin Sheath
