Adrenal medullary implants reduce transsynaptic degeneration in the spinal cord of rats following chronic constriction nerve injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-93

  Hama, Aldric T ^a,b   Pappas, George D ^a   Sagen, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0030071891     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0009     Document Type: Article

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