Regeneration of Supraspinal Axons after Complete Transection of the Thoracic Spinal Cord in Neonatal Opossums (Monodelphis domestica)

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 466, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 422-444

  Fry, Elizabeth Jane ^a,b   Stolp, Helen Bronwyn ^a   Lane, Michael Aron ^a   Dziegielewska, Katarzyna Magdalena ^a   Saunders, Norman Ruthven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cell death; Immature CNS; Retrograde labeling; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

AMINE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; DEXTRAN; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN STEM; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BRAIN STEM; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OPOSSUMS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0142126329     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10904     Document Type: Article

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