Androgens rescue avian embryonic lumbar spinal motoneurons from injury- induced but not naturally occurring cell death

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 585-595

  Gould, Thomas W ^b   Burek, Michael J ^b   Ishihara, Rieko ^b   Lo, Albert C ^a   Prevette, David ^b   Oppenheim, Ronald W ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Androgen; Axotomy; Cell death; Motoneuron; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANTIANDROGEN; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; FLUTAMIDE; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FOWL; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

EID: 0032739130     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4695(199912)41:4<585::aid-neu13>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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