TY - GEN AU - Granados-Durán, Pablo AU - López-Ávalos, María Dolores AU - Hughes, Timothy R AU - Johnson, Krista AU - Morgan, B Paul AU - Tamburini, Paul P AU - Fernández-Llebrez, Pedro AU - Grondona, Jesús M PY - 2016 DO - 10.1186/s12974-016-0576-9 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/17140 AB - In the rat brain, a single intracerebroventricular injection of neuraminidase from Clostridium perfringens induces ependymal detachment and death. This injury occurs before the infiltration of inflammatory blood cells; some reports implicate the... LA - eng KW - Anti-C5 KW - Brain ventricles KW - C6-deficient rats KW - Complement system KW - Ependymal cells KW - Inflammation KW - Neuraminidase KW - Animals KW - Antibodies KW - Cells, Cultured KW - Cerebral Ventriculitis KW - Complement C3 KW - Complement C5 KW - Complement C6 KW - Complement Membrane Attack Complex KW - Disease Models, Animal KW - Ependyma KW - Gene Expression Regulation KW - Injections, Intraventricular KW - Lectins KW - Male KW - Neuraminidase KW - Rats KW - Rats, Transgenic KW - Rats, Wistar KW - Signal Transduction KW - Time Factors KW - Vimentin TI - Complement system activation contributes to the ependymal damage induced by microbial neuraminidase. TY - research article ER -