Axotomized Rubrospinal Neurons Rescued by Fetal Spinal Cord Transplants Maintain Axon Collaterals to Rostral CNS Targets

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-25

  Bernstein Goral, Holli ^a   Bregman, Barbara S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CORDOTOMY; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE REGENERATION; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; RAT; RED NUCLEUS; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CELL DEATH; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CORDOTOMY; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RED NUCLEUS; RETROGRADE DEGENERATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 0031262135     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6640     Document Type: Article

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