Transplants of fibroblasts genetically modified to express BDNF promote axonal regeneration from supraspinal neurons following chronic spinal cord injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 265-275

  Jin, Ying ^a   Fischer, Itzhak ^b   Tessler, Alan ^b   Houle, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; Neurotransplantation; Neurotrophin; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury; Supraspinal

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; BIOTIN DEXTRAN AMINE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FORELIMB; LOCOMOTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; VESTIBULOSPINAL TRACT;

EID: 0036434324     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2002.7980     Document Type: Article

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