Cellular inflammatory response after spinal cord injury in Sprague- Dawley and Lewis rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 377, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 443-464

  Popovich, Phillip G ^a,b   Wei, Ping ^a   Stokes, Bradford T ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Dept Med Microbiol and Immunol ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

image analysis; macrophage; microglia; T lymphocyte; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICROGLIA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MICROGLIA; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0031013236     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970120)377:3<443::AID-CNE10>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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