Combined neurotrophic supplementation and caspase inhibition enhances survival of fetal hippocampal CA3 cell grafts in lesioned CA3 region of the aging hippocampus

Neuroscience

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 537-553

  Zaman, V ^a,b   Shetty, A K ^a,b  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

5 bromodeoxyuridine; Aging; Hippocampal grafts; Hyperexcitability; Neural transplantation; Post lesion plasticity; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLTYROSYLVALYLALANYLASPARTYL CHLOROMETHYLKETONE; BROXURIDINE; CASPASE INHIBITOR; KAINIC ACID; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CASPASES; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FETUS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0037074890     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(01)00478-X     Document Type: Article

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