Fibroblast growth factor-2 gene delivery stimulates axon growth by adult retinal ganglion cells after acute optic nerve injury

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 656-672

  Sapieha, Przemyslaw S ^a   Peltier, Martin ^a   Rendahl, Katherine G ^b   Manning, William C ^b,c   Di Polo, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c SUGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HEPARAN SULFATE; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL REGENERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GROWTH INHIBITION; HYPOTHESIS; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; UPREGULATION;

ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS;

EID: 0344737616     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-7431(03)00228-8     Document Type: Article

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