Increased ciliary neurotrophic factor expression in reactive astrocytes following spinal cord injury in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 79-82

  Lee, Mun Yong ^a   Kim, Chang Jae ^a   Shin, Soon Lim ^a   Moon, Se Ho ^a   Chun, Myung Hoon ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Ciliary neurotrophic factor; Immunocytochemistry; Rat; Spinal cord; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032475479     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00710-1     Document Type: Article

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