Transplantation of sciatic nerve segments into normal and glia-depleted spinal cords

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 495-501

  Sims, Terry J ^a   Durgun, M Barbaros ^b   Gilmore, Shirley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Astrocytic scars; Cns regeneration; Nerve grafts; Spinal cord; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; FIBROBLAST; GLIA; GRAY MATTER; HOST; IRRADIATION; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCAR; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; X RAY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRYOPRESERVATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032896067     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050707     Document Type: Article

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