Local blockade of sodium channels by tetrodotoxin ameliorates tissue loss and long-term functional deficits resulting from experimental spinal cord injury

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4359-4366

  Teng, Yang Dong ^a   Wrathall, Jean R ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

histopathology; motor function; rat; sodium channel; spinal cord injury; tetrodotoxin; white matter injury

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MICTURITION REFLEX; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0344688458     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-11-04359.1997     Document Type: Article

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