Nerve growth factor treatment prevents dendritic atrophy and promotes recovery of function after cortical injury

Neuroscience

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1139-1151

  Kolb, B ^a   Cote, S ^b   Ribeiro Da Silva, A ^b   Cuello, A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cortex; dendrite arborization; functional recovery; NGF; synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DENDRITES; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0031021412     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00448-4     Document Type: Article

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