In histology, the GFAP stain is done to determine whether cells contain glial fibrillary acidic protein, a protein found in glial cells.
It is useful for determining whether a tumour is of glial origin.[1]
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In histology, the GFAPstain is done to determine whether cells contain glial fibrillary acidic protein, a protein found in glial cells. It is useful for...
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is a protein that is encoded by the GFAP gene in humans. It is a type III intermediate filament (IF) protein that...
processes, and increase synthesis of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). GFAP is an important intermediate filament protein that allows the astrocytes...
specific intermediate filaments made up of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). Pituicytes are similar to astrocytes, another type of glial cell. Their...
regeneration does not occur in areas with an increase in GFAP and vimentin. Paradoxically, an increase in GFAP production is also specific to the minimization...
Dougherty PM, Kajander KC, Carlton SM (November 1991). "Staining of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in lumbar spinal cord increases following a sciatic...
myofibroblasts (especially if they have a stellate form) may also be positive for GFAP. There are many possible ways of myofibroblast development: Partial smooth...
antibody-based staining methods. Immunohistochemistry or IHC staining of tissue sections (or immunocytochemistry, which is the staining of cells), is perhaps...
the tumor is seen to be composed of bipolar cells with long "hair-like" GFAP-positive processes, giving the designation "pilocytic" (that is, made up...
epidermal growth factor and tumor growth factor-beta receptor signaling through GFAP-ACTA2 protein interaction in liver fibrosis". Pakistan Journal of Medical...
astrocytic cell from rat brain grown in tissue culture and stained with antibodies to GFAP (red) and vimentin (green). Both proteins are present in large...
papilloma patients may test positive for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). Studies have found that fourth ventricle cancers express more S100 than...
not express CD45, CD15, CD30, HMB-45, MLANA (also termed Melan-A), desmin, GFAP, or S100 proteins. Earlier studies had reported that these cells express...
PMID 10712425. Quinlan RA, Brenner M, Goldman JE, Messing A (June 2007). "GFAP and its role in Alexander disease". Experimental Cell Research. 313 (10):...
which can be used as antigens in an immunoassay. For example, NeuN/Fox3 and GFAP are antigens commonly used to detect neurons, glia, and ependymal cells....
and, in some instances, including humans, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). After this transition, radial glia retain many of the original characteristics...
fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and epithelial membrane antigen (EMA). Clinicians also observe a specific dot-like pattern from the stained EMA photomicrograph...
astrocytic in their morphology, their expression of glial markers such as GFAP, and their function in regulating the NSC microenvironment. However, unlike...
different structures. The most important neural markers used nowadays are the GFAP, Nestin, NeuroD antibodies and others. For the past years there are still...
divided into 5 major classes, the Class I and II keratins, Class III vimentin, GFAP, desmin and the others, the Class IV neurofilaments and the Class V nuclear...
astroglial cells can be detected using glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), which is a specific marker of glial cells. Other than into neurons and...
Neurons were grown in tissue culture and stained with antibody to MAP2 protein in green and MAP tau in red using the immunofluorescence technique. MAP2...
cytoplasmic filaments. The cytoplasm of gemistocytes stains positive for glial fibrillary acidic protein, GFAP. While the intermediate filaments in gemistocytes...
cell markers, including GFAP (glial fibrillary acidic protein), cytokeratin, vimentin and fibronectin. S-100 protein and GFAP expression seem to be strongest...
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