Fetal spinal cord transplants support growth of supraspinal and segmental projections after cervical spinal cord hemisection in the neonatal rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 779-793

  Diener, Pamela S ^a,b   Bregman, Barbara S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Corticospinal axons; Dorsal root axons; Neuroanatomical tracing; Raphespinal axons; Red nucleus; Rubrospinal axons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; FETUS; FORELIMB; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; RED NUCLEUS; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0031962067     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-02-00779.1998     Document Type: Article

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