Nimodipine maintains in vivo the increase in GFAP and enhances the astroglial ensheathment of surviving motoneurons in the rat following permanent target deprivation

Journal of Neurocytology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 241-248

  Guntinas Lichius, O ^a   Martinez Portillo, F ^b,d   Lebek, J ^c,d   Angelov, D N ^d   Stennert, E ^a   Neiss, W F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Klinik für Urologie Marienkrankenhaus Bergisch Gladbach   (Germany)

^c Abt Netzhaut Glaskorperchirurgie   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NIMODIPINE; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MACROGLIA; MOTONEURON; NERVE SHEATH; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; DENERVATION; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; NIMODIPINE; PLACEBOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030959074     PISSN: 03004864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018592215557     Document Type: Article

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