Nerve growth factor-hypersecreting Schwann cell grafts augment and guide spinal cord axonal growth and remyelinate central nervous system axons in a phenolically appropriate manner that correlates with expression of L1

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 413, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 495-506

  Weidner, N ^a   Blesch, A ^a   Grill, R J ^a   Tuszynski, Mark H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; Gene therapy; Nerve growth factor; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL INTERACTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GROWTH STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; REMYELINIZATION; SCHWANN CELL;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHWANN CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0033232045     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19991101)413:4<495::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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