Embryonic central nervous system transplants mediate adult dorsal root regeneration into host spinal cord

Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 849-858

  Itoh, Yasunobu ^a   Mizoi, Kazuo ^b   Tessler, Alan ^c  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcitonin gene related peptide; Dorsal root regeneration; Embryonic central nervous system tissue; Immunohistochemistry; Intraspinal transplantation; Rat

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; FEMALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROTROPISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032869261     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199910000-00024     Document Type: Article

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