Optimising plasticity: Environmental and training associated factors in transplant-mediated brain repair

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-21

  Döbrössy, Màtè Dàniel ^a   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural experience and training; Brain damage; Embryonic tissue grafts; Environmental enrichment; Graft function; Huntington's disease; Neural stem cells; Neuronal plasticity; Parkinson's disease; Recovery; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GONADORELIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUROMODULIN; OXIDOPAMINE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN DARPP 32; QUINOLINIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CELL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EMBRYO; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; TISSUE GRAFT; TRAINING; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 15944388208     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/revneuro.2005.16.1.1     Document Type: Review

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