Survival effects of BDNF and NT-3 on axotomized rubrospinal neurons depend on the temporal pattern of neurotrophin administration

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 776-780

  Novikova, Liudmila N ^a   Novikov, Lev N ^a   Kellerth, Jan Olof ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fluorescent tracers; Rat; Spinal cord injury; TrkB; TrkC

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPERTROPHY; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TIME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CISTERNA MAGNA; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; HYPERTROPHY; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; MICROGLIA; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, TRKB; RED NUCLEUS; RETROGRADE DEGENERATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACTS; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034091661     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00978.x     Document Type: Article

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