Axonal growth into tubes implanted within lesions in the spinal cords of adult rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 277-290

  Montgomery, Craig T ^a   Tenaglia, Elizabeth A ^b   Robson, John A ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL CORD LESION;

EID: 0029874393     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0026     Document Type: Article

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