Recovery of locomotion following transplantation of monoaminergic neurons in the spinal cord of paraplegic rats

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 860, Issue , 1998, Pages 393-411

  Giménez Y Ribotta, Minerva ^a   Orsal, Didier ^b   Feraboli Lohnherr, Delphine ^b   Privat, Alain ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN STEM; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; EMBRYO CELL; LOCOMOTION; MONOAMINE NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; RAT; REINNERVATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0032416310     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09064.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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