Brain-derived neurotrophic factor stimulates hindlimb stepping and sprouting of cholinergic fibers after spinal cord injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 170-184

  Jakeman, Lyn B ^a   Wei, Ping ^a   Guan, Zhen ^a   Stokes, Bradford T ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; Functional recovery; Neurotrophin; Regeneration; Spinal pattern generator; Trauma

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY SCALE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

EID: 0032212449     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1998.6924     Document Type: Article

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