Connective integration of hppocampal grafts in excitotoxic hippocampal lesions in adult rats. An anterograde axonal tracing study

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-24

  Aznar, Susana ^a,b,c   Tønder, Niels ^a   Azcoitia, Iñigo ^b   Sørensen, Jens Christian ^a   Zimmer, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Axon growth; Biocytin; Biotinylated dextranamine; CA3 pyramidal cells; Dentate gyrus; Ibotenic acid; Neural transplants; Phaseolus vulgaris leukoaglutinin

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; EXCITOTOXIN; IBOTENIC ACID; LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029899342     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/rnn-1996-10103     Document Type: Article

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