Potential roles of gene expression change in adult rat spinal motoneurons following axonal injury: A comparison among c-jun, low-affinity nerve growth factor receptor (LNGFR), and nitric oxide synthase (NOS)

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 190-200

  Wu, Wutian ^a,b  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0030271362     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0153     Document Type: Article

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