Significance of fixation of the vertebral column for spinal cord injury experiments

Spine

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1666-1671

  Liu, Fei ^a,b   Luo, Zhuo Jin ^b   You, Si Wei ^a   Jiao, Xi Ying ^a   Meng, Xiao Mei ^a   Shi, Ming ^a   Wang, Chun Ting ^a   Ju, Gong ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Glial meningeal scar; Secondary degeneration; Spinal cord transection; Vertebral column

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCAR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SPINE STABILIZATION;

EID: 0043076265     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000083172.31580.25     Document Type: Article

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