Striatal grafts in a rat model of Huntington's disease: Time course comparison of MRI and histology

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 180-190

  Guzman, R ^a   Meyer, M ^a,b   Lovblad K O ^a   Ozdoba, C ^a   Schroth, G ^a   Seiler, R W ^a   Widmer, H R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Histology; Huntington's disease; Lateral ganglionic eminence; MRI; Neural transplantation; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN GRAFT; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FETUS; HISTOLOGY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0033031502     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7015     Document Type: Article

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