Transplants and neurotrophic factors prevent atrophy of mature CNS neurons after spinal cord injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-27

  Bregman, B S ^a   Broude, E ^a   McAtee, M ^a   Kelley, M S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Axotomy; c Jun; Neurotrophic factors; Red nucleus; Spinal cord injury; Transplants

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0031937608     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6669     Document Type: Article

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