Spinal kyphosis causes demyelination and neuronal loss in the spinal cord: A new model of kyphotic deformity using juvenile Japanese small game fowls

Spine

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 2388-2392

  Shimizu, Kentaro ^a   Nakamura, Masaya ^a,c   Nishikawa, Yuji ^b   Hijikata, Sadahisa ^b   Chiba, Kazuhiro ^a   Toyama, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Denryoku Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic compression; Microangiography; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOWL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KYPHOSIS; LAMINECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHICKENS; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KYPHOSIS; LAMINECTOMY; MICROCIRCULATION; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVES; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 27644444354     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000184378.67465.5c     Document Type: Article

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