The effects of remaining axons on motoneuron survival and nos expression following axotomy in the adult rat

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 255-259

  Gu, Yoaming ^a   Spasic, Zvonko ^a   Wu, Wutian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adult rat; Axotomy; Cell death; Nitric oxide synthase; Spinal motoneuron

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL NERVE;

EID: 0030913939     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: 14219859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111214     Document Type: Article

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