The Dorsolateral Corticospinal Tract in Mice: An Alternative Route for Corticospinal Input to Caudal Segments following Dorsal Column Lesions

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 472, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 463-477

  Steward, Oswald ^a,d   Zheng, Binhai ^b   Ho, Carole ^b   Anderson, Kim ^a   Tessier Lavigne, Marc ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Mice; Motor system; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

AMINE; DEXTRAN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE TRACT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOTIN; BRAIN; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RHODAMINES; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 1942420813     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20090     Document Type: Article

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