Pyridoxine neuropathy in rats: Specific degeneration of sensory axons

Neurology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1985, Pages 1617-1622

  Windebank, Anthony J ^a   Low, Phillip A ^a   Blexrud, Marceil D ^a   Schmelzer, James D ^a   Schaumburg, Herbert H ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRIDOXINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ATAXIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEGENERATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESPONSE; ETIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; INTOXICATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY AXON; SENSORY NERVE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PYRIDOXINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0022218535     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.35.11.1617     Document Type: Article

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