The fetal spinal cord does not regenerate after in utero transection in a large mammalian model

Neurosurgery

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 555-561

  Meuli Simmen, Claudia ^a,c   Meuli, Martin ^a   Hutchins, Grover M ^d   Yingling, Charles D ^b   Timmel, Gregory B ^a   Harrison, Michael R ^a   Adzick, N Scott ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal sprouting; Fetus; Neural regeneration; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

EID: 0029780758     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/00006123-199609000-00024     Document Type: Article

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