Reduction in the number of spinal motor neurons in neurotrophin-3-deficient mice

Neuroscience

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 321-330

  Kucera, J ^a   Ernfors, P ^b   Walro, J ^c   Jaenisch, R ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; brain derived neurotrophic factor; dorsal root ganglion; DRG; fusimotor neurons; mAb; MHC; monoclonal antibody; motor neurons; muscle spindles; myosin heavy chain; neurotrophin 3; neurotrophins; NT 3; P; postnatal day; proprioception; ventral root; VR

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA NERVE FIBER; GENE DELETION; HOMOZYGOSITY; INTRAFUSAL MUSCLE FIBER; MOUSE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUTANT; MYELINATED NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUSCLE SPINDLES; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029128530     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00221-4     Document Type: Article

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