Reactive Astrocytes Protect Tissue and Preserve Function after Spinal Cord Injury

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2143-2155

  Faulkner, Jill R ^a,b   Herrmann, Julia E ^a,b   Woo, Michael J ^a   Tansey, Keith E ^a   Doan, Ngan B ^a   Sofroniew, Michael V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Glial fibrillary acid protein; Inflammation; Motor function; Neural degeneration; Reactive astrocytes; Spinal cord injury; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL DIVISION; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WOUND CONTRACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; ASTROCYTES; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL DIVISION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GANCICLOVIR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INFLAMMATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CRUSH; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSGENES; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 1542317072     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3547-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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