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vim - vimentin

Danio rerio

Synonyms: SO:0000704

Alunni, A. et al., Cerdà, J. et al., Byrd, C.A. et al.

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In addition, the structural proteins glial fibrillary acidic protein and vimentin have distributions similar to those in the olfactory bulbs of other animals [1].
Remarkably, like in most other vertebrates, zebrafish vimentin appears to be an abundant factor in the lens and the retina as well as transiently, during development, in various parts of the central and peripheral nervous system [2].
Hence the heavy band might be a GFAP protein dimer or vimentin/GFAP copolymer reflecting nerve fiber growth and elongation, or the two isoforms might indicate two distinct astroglial cell types as recently proposed in the zebrafish [3].

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Organization of the olfactory system in the adult zebrafish: histological, immunohistochemical, and quantitative analysis. Byrd, C.A., Brunjes, P.C. J. Comp. Neurol. (1995) [Pubmed]
Zebrafish vimentin: molecular characterization, assembly properties and developmental expression. Cerdà, J., Conrad, M., Markl, J., Brand, M., Herrmann, H. Eur. J. Cell Biol. (1998) [Pubmed]
Characterization of glial fibrillary acidic protein and astroglial architecture in the brain of a continuously growing fish, the rainbow trout. Alunni, A., Vaccari, S., Torcia, S., Meomartini, M.E., Nicotra, A., Alfei, L. European journal of histochemistry : EJH. (2005) [Pubmed]

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