Light promotes regeneration and functional recovery and alters the immune response after spinal cord injury

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 171-185

  Byrnes, Kimberly R ^a,c   Waynant, Ronald W ^b   Ilev, Ilko K ^b   Wu, Xingjia ^a   Barna, Lauren ^a   Smith, Kimberly ^a   Heckert, Reed ^a   Gerst, Heather ^a   Anders, Juanita J ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Corticospinal tract; Footprint analysis; Low power laser irradiation; Macrophage; Microglia; Photobiomodulation; Rat; Retrograde and anterograde tract tracing

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LOCOMOTION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD45; AXONS; CYTOKINES; ECTODYSPLASINS; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LOCOMOTION; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 17044406248     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20143     Document Type: Article

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