Fetal spinal cord tissue in mini-guidance channels promotes longitudinal axonal growth after grafting into hemisected adult rat spinal cords

Neural Plasticity

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 103-121

  Bamber, Norman I ^a   Li, Huaying ^a   Aebischer, Patrick ^b   Xu, Xiao Ming ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fetal spinal cord; Neural tissue transplant; Rat; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; FAST BLUE; LEUKOAGGLUTININ; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; TISSUE GRAFT;

EID: 0032722560     PISSN: 20905904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/NP.1999.103     Document Type: Article

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