Motoneuron survival after neonatal peroneal nerve injury in the rat - Evidence for the sparing effect of reciprocal inhibition

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-100

  Waters, H J ^a   Barnett, G ^a   O'Hanlon, G M ^a,b   Lowrie, M B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Motoneuron death; Neonate; Reciprocal inhibition; Retrograde labeling

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0031815576     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1998.6820     Document Type: Article

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