Growth-associated protein expression in the frontal and occipital cortices of callosotomized rats

Functional Neurology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 181-184

  Farina, Vittorio ^a   Gadau, Sergio ^b   Lepore, Gianluca ^a   Manca, Paolo ^a   Zedda, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Callosotomy; Frontal and occipital cortices; Growth associated proteins; Neuronal plasticity; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; GROWTH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NEUROMODULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIOTOMY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HISTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT STRAIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAP-43 PROTEIN; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TUBULIN;

EID: 17844395686     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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