The time course of loss of dopaminergic neurons and the gliotic reaction surrounding grafts of embryonic mesencephalon to the striatum

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-93

  Baeker, Roger A ^a,b,c   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a,b   Faissner, Andreas ^d   Fawcett, James W ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDOPAMINE; PROTEOGLYCAN; TENASCIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; MICROGLIA; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030248550     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0141     Document Type: Article

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