Quinolinic acid-induced inflammation in the striatum does not impair the survival of neural allografts in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2595-2606

  Duan, Wei Ming ^a,b   Widner, Håkan ^a   Cameron, Reynolds M ^a   Brundin, Patrik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Neural allograft; Quinolinic acid; Rat; Striatum

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; QUINOLINIC ACID; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGES; MICROGLIA; NEURONS; QUINOLINIC ACID; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031927150     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00279.x     Document Type: Article

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