Extensive and permanent motoneuron loss in the rat lumber spinal cord following neurotoxic lesion at birth: Morphological evidence

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-92

  Leanza, Giampiero ^a   Stanzani, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lumbar spinal cord; Motoneuron; Neonatal rat; Nerve crush; Neurotoxic lesion; Volkensin

Indexed keywords

VOLKENSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLYCOPROTEINS; LECTINS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NERVE CRUSH; NEUROTOXINS; PLANT LECTINS; PLANT PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032513207     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00135-9     Document Type: Article

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