Bcl-2 Overexpression Does Not Enhance In Vivo Axonal Regeneration of Retinal Ganglion Cells after Peripheral Nerve Transplantation in Adult Mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 4468-4477

  Inoue, Tetsu ^a,c   Hosokawa, Mizuho ^a,b   Morigiwa, Katsuko ^a   Ohashi, Yuichi ^b   Fukuda, Yutaka ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; Bcl 2 transgenic mice; Optic nerve; Peripheral nerve transplantation; Retinal ganglion cells; Survival

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INJURY; SURVIVAL RATE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE REGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0036616874     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-11-04468.2002     Document Type: Article

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