Motoneurones that innervate the rat soleus muscle mature later than those to the tibialis anterior and extensor digitorum longus muscles

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 546-551

  Sanusi, Junedah ^c   Greensmith, Linda ^a   Lowrie, Margaret B ^b   Vrbová, Gerta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Axotomy; L dopa; Locomotor activity; Motoneurone survival

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE INJURY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; CELL AGING; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0032406438     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017356     Document Type: Article

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