Long-term locomotor training up-regulates TrkBFL receptor-like proteins, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and neurotrophin 4 with different topographies of expression in oligodendroglia and neurons in the spinal cord

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 289-307

  Skup, Malgorzata ^a   Dwornik, Anna ^a   Macias, Matylda ^a   Sulejczak, Dorota ^a   Wiater, Maciej ^a   Czarkowska Bauch, Julita ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adult rat; BDNF; Immunohistochemistry; Locomotor training; NT 4; Oligodendroglia; Spinal cord; TrkB

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EXERCISE; GLIA CELL; GRAY MATTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STEM CELL; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0036402671     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2002.7943     Document Type: Article

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