Reformation of the nigrostriatal pathway by fetal dopaminergic micrografts into the substantia nigra is critically dependent on the age of the host

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 177-190

  Bentlage, Claas ^a,b   Nikkhah, Guido ^a,b   Cunningham, Miles G ^c   Björklund, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORDSTADT HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

6 hydroxydopamine; Dopamine; Fiber outgrowth; Neonatal rats; Neural transplantation; Parkinson; Striatum; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 7,8 DIHYDROXY 1 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPINE; AMPHETAMINE; APOMORPHINE; QUINPIROLE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE GRAFT; NEWBORN; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0032830445     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7110     Document Type: Article

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