Fast Blue and Diamidino Yellow as retrograde tracers in peripheral nerves: Efficacy of combined nerve injection and capsule application to transected nerves in the adult rat

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 103-110

  Puigdellívol Sánchez, Anna ^a   Prats Galino, Alberto ^a   Ruano Gil, Domingo ^a   Molander, Carl ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Rehab Med Div/or Karolinska H   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adult rat; Axonal transport; Dorsal root ganglia; Double labelling; Fluorescent dyes; Sciatic nerve; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

FAST BLUE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MOTONEURON; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CAPSULES; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, SPINAL; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0342546440     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00164-8     Document Type: Article

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