Peripheral targets influence sensory-motor connectivity in the neonatal spinal cord: Sciatic nerve axotomy in Bax-deficient mice

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-37

  Kinugasa, Tomonori ^a,b,c   Kudo, Norio ^a   Ozaki, Shigeru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Tsukuba Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Bax; Monosynaptic response; Motoneuron; Primary afferent; Spinal cord; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX;

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; FEMALE; IMMATURITY; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL ROOT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXOTOMY; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 28944436611     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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