Conditioning Injury-Induced Spinal Axon Regeneration Fails in Interleukin-6 Knock-Out Mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 4432-4443

  Cafferty, William B J ^a   Gardiner, Natalie J ^b   Das, Partha ^a   Qiu, Jin ^a   McMahon, Stephen B ^a   Thompson, Stephen W N ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axotomy; CNS; Conditioning lesion; Dorsal root ganglia; IL 6 (interleukin 6); Regeneration

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR; MAG PROTEIN; MYELIN; MYELIN INHIBITOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROMODULIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3; OMGP PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN NOGO A; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONDITIONING INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE INJURY; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRECONDITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLERA TOXIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG SYNERGISM; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GAP-43 PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 2342493315     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2245-02.2004     Document Type: Article

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