Muramyl dipeptide injected into crushed sciatic nerve, activates macrophages and promotes recovery of walking locomotion in rats

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 213-219

  Fukuyama, Ryuichi ^a   Takeda, Hiroshi ^b   Fushiki, Shinji ^c   Yamamoto, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kumamoto Kinoh Hospital   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Macrophages; Muramyl dipeptide; Pinch test; RT PCR; SFI; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MURAMYL DIPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LOCOMOTION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; NERVE CRUSH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIATIC NERVE; WALKING;

EID: 0032436647     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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