Spinal cord myelin is vulnerable to decompression

Molecular and Chemical Neuropathology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 273-288

  Bond, Jeremy P ^a,b   Kirschner, Daniel A ^a,b  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

CNS; diving; Hyperbaric medicine; mouse; multiple sclerosis; myelin lipid; myelin ultrastructure; PNS; proteolipid protein; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0030926320     PISSN: 10447393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02815103     Document Type: Article

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