Alginate Enhances Elongation of Early Regenerating Axons in Spinal Cord of Young Rats

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 493-504

  Kataoka, Kazuya ^a   Suzuki, Yoshihisa ^a   Kitada, Masaaki ^a   Hashimoto, Tadashi ^a   Chou, Hirotomi ^a   Bai, Hongliang ^a   Ohta, Masayoshi ^a   Wu, Sufan ^a   Suzuki, Kyoko ^a   Ide, Chizuka ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHONDROITIN SULFATE; COLLAGEN GEL; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ASTROCYTE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZE DRYING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPLANTATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COLLAGEN; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 2342527151     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107632704323061852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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