Effects of assisted feeding on Wobbler mouse motoneuron disease and on serotonergic and peptidergic sprouting in the cervical spinal ventral horn

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 429-439

  Bose, P ^a   Fielding, R ^b   Vacca Galloway, L L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Behavior; Calcitonin gene related peptide; Histology; Immunocytochemistry; Motoneuron disease; Serotonin; Wobbler mouse

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; SEROTONIN; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEART WEIGHT; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOUSE; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPLEEN WEIGHT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NECK; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGAN SIZE; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033103320     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(99)00024-6     Document Type: Article

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