Traumatic axonal injury results in biphasic calpain activation and retrograde transport impairment in mice

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 34-42

  Saatman, Kathryn E ^a   Abai, Babak ^a   Grosvenor, Ashley ^b   Vorwerk, Christian K ^c   Smith, Douglas H ^a   Meaney, David F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonal transport; Brain injury; Cytoskeleton; Neurofilament; Optic nerve; Spectrin

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; SPECTRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD INJURY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; RETINA;

EID: 0037215483     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.WCB.0000035040.10031.B0     Document Type: Article

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