Differential effects of spinal cord gray and white matter on process outgrowth from grafted human NTERA2 neurons (NT2N, hNT)

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 415, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 404-418

  Hartley, Rebecca S ^a   Trojanowski, John Q ^a   Lee, Virginia M Y ^a,b  

^a Institute of Neurological Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuron transplants; Transplant neurobiology; Transplantation therapy

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAY MATTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WHITE MATTER;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURITES; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PHENOTYPE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 0033590248     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19991220)415:3<404::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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