Targeted overexpression of the neurite growth-associated protein B- 50/GAP-43 in cerebellar Purkinje cells induces sprouting after axotomy but not axon regeneration into growth-permissive transplants

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 8778-8791

  Buffo, Annalisa ^a   Holtmaat, Anthony J D G ^b   Savio, Tiziana ^f   Verbeek, J Sjef ^c   Oberdick, John ^d   Oestreicher, A Beate ^e   Gispen, Wilhelm Hendrik ^e   Verhaagen, Joost ^b   Rossi, Ferdinando ^a   Strata, Piergiorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axon growth associated genes; Cerebellum; Embryonic neural graft; L7; Schwann cell transplantation; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

NEUROMODULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PURKINJE CELL; SCHWANN CELL;

EID: 16944364893     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-22-08778.1997     Document Type: Article

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