Cellular delivery of neurotrophin-3 promotes corticospinal axonal growth and partial functional recovery after spinal cord injury

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 5560-5572

  Tuszynski, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal; Gene therapy; Locomotion; Neurotrophin 3 (NT 3); Regeneration; Spinal cord injury; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE THERAPY; LOCOMOTION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 16944366150     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-14-05560.1997     Document Type: Article

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