Nerve growth factor promotes regeneration of sensory axons into adult rat spinal cord

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 218-229

  Oudega, Martin ^a   Hagg, Theo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGIONAL PERFUSION; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030222129     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0131     Document Type: Article

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