Pig fetal septal neurons implanted into the hippocampus of aged or cholinergic deafferented rats grow axons and form cross-species synapses in appropriate target regions

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-129

  Deacon, Terrence ^a   Whatley, Brandi ^a   LeBlanc, Celeste ^a   Lin, Ling ^a   Isacson, Ole ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross species synapses; Fetal pig xenografts; Rat hippocampus

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYCLOSPORIN A; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; SYNAPTOBREVIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FETUS; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SWINE; SYNAPSE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032877188     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096368979900800104     Document Type: Article

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