Targeting functional subtypes of spinal motoneurons and skeletal muscle fibers in vivo by intramuscular injection of adenoviral and adeno-associated viral vectors

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 215-221

  Martinov, Vladimir N ^a   Sefland, Iren ^a   Walaas, Ivar S ^a   Lømo, Terje ^a   Njå, Arild ^a   Hoover, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Axonal transport; Fast twitch muscle fiber; Gene therapy; Nervous system; Slow twitch muscle fiber

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; TRACER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL GANGLION; ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; GENE TARGETING; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE STRAIN; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; RAT; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SPINAL NERVE; VIROLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; ANIMAL; AXONAL TRANSPORT; DEPENDOVIRUS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VECTORS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL NERVES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; ANIMALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ALEUTIAN MINK DISEASE PARVOVIRUS (STRAIN G); ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036098113     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-002-0233-1     Document Type: Article

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