Accelerated recovery following polyamines and aminoguanidine treatment after facial nerve injury in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 724, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 141-144

  Gilad, Varda H ^a   Tetzlaff, Wolfram G ^b   Rabey, Jose M ^a   Gilad, Gad M ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cell death; choline acetyltransferase; facial nucleus; motoneuron; neuron survival; regeneration

Indexed keywords

AMINOGUANIDINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; POLYAMINE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FACIAL NERVE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0029950597     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00287-9     Document Type: Article

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