Melatonin enhances the in vitro and in vivo repair of severed rat sciatic axons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 376, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 98-101

  Stavisky, Ronda C ^a   Britt, Joshua M ^a   Zuzek, Aleksej ^a   Truong, Elizabeth ^a   Bittner, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal repair; Axotomy; Cyclosporin A; Glial derived neurotrophic factor; Melatonin; Methylprednisolone

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CYCLOSPORIN A; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; MACROGOL; MELATONIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MELANOSIS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 13444262279     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.11.033     Document Type: Article

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