Morphological changes of the soleus motoneuron pool in chronic midthoracic contused rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-23

  Bose, Prodip ^a   Parmer, Ronald ^a   Reier, Paul J ^a   Thompson, Floyd J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholera toxin; Contusion injury; Morphometry; Motoneuron pool; Soleus muscle

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COUNT; CELL LABELING; CELL SIZE; CELL TRANSPORT; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENDRITE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYPERTROPHY; INJECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 10044295811     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2004.08.028     Document Type: Article

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