The neurotrophin NT4/5, but not NT3, enhances the efficacy of nigral grafts in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

Brain Research

Volumn 712, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-52

  Haque, Nadia S K ^a,b   Hlavin, Mary Louise ^a,c   Fawcett, James W ^a   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibre outgrowth; Neurotrophin; Nigral graft; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0029962204     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01427-6     Document Type: Article

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