Fetal hippocampal CA3 cell grafts enriched with FGF-2 and BDNF exhibit robust long-term survival and integration and suppress aberrant mossy fiber sprouting in the injured middle-aged hippocampus

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 276-290

  Rao, Muddanna S ^b   Hattiangady, Bharathi ^b   Shetty, Ashok K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aging; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Fibroblast growth factor 2; Hippocampal injury; Neural transplantation; Post lesion plasticity; Rat and temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN GRAFT; BRAIN INJURY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENERVATION; DENTATE GYRUS; EFFERENT NERVE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPROUTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELLS, CULTURED; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; KAINIC ACID; MICE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 30744476744     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2005.07.009     Document Type: Article

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