Cytokine mRNA profiles in contused spinal cord and axotomized facial nucleus suggest a beneficial role for inflammation and gliosis

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 74-87

  Streit, Wolfgang J ^a   Semple Rowland, Susan L ^a   Hurley, Sean D ^a   Miller, Rehae C ^a   Popovich, Phillip G ^b   Stokes, Bradford T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Degeneration; Growth factors; Microglia; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CONTUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; GLIOSIS; INFLAMMATION; MICROGLIA; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031815256     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1998.6835     Document Type: Article

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