Fetal spinal cord transplants rescue some axotomized rubrospinal neurons from retrograde cell death in adult rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-60

  Mori, Futoshi ^a,b   Himes, B Timothy ^a,c   Kowada, Masayoshi ^b   Murray, Marion ^a   Tessler, Alan ^a,c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION;

EID: 0031036301     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.6318     Document Type: Article

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