Transplants of fibroblasts genetically modified to express BDNF promote regeneration of adult rat rubrospinal axons and recovery of forelimb function

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 4370-4387

  Liu, Yi ^a   Kim, Duckhyun ^a   Himes, B Timothy ^a,b   Chow, Stella Y ^a   Schallert, Timothy ^c   Murray, Marion ^a   Tessler, Alan ^a,b   Fischer, Itzhak ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracing; Axon regeneration; Cell transplantation; Neurotrophin; Recovery of function; Retrograde tracing; Retrovirus; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FIBROBLAST; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GRAY MATTER; HOST RESISTANCE; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; RETROVIRUS; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0033151593     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-11-04370.1999     Document Type: Article

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