Patterns of cell death and dopaminergic neuron survival in intrastriatal nigral grafts

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 279-288

  Emgård, Mia ^a   Karlsson, Jenny ^a   Hansson, Oskar ^a   Brundin, Patrik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cell death; Dopamine; Fluoro Jade; Nigral grafts; Parkinson's disease; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; FEMALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0345102465     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7198     Document Type: Article

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