Grafts of BDNF-producing fibroblasts rescue axotomized rubrospinal neurons and prevent their atrophy

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 150-164

  Liu, Yi ^a   Himes, B Timothy ^a,b   Murray, Marion ^a   Tessler, Alan ^a,b   Fischer, Itzhak ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

ex vivo gene therapy; Neurotrophins; Red nucleus; Retrograde cell death; Retroviral vector; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ACEPROMAZINE MALEATE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FLUOROGOLD; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PENTOBARBITAL; XYLAZINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; INJECTION; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RED NUCLEUS; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION;

EID: 0036935096     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2002.7977     Document Type: Article

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