Genetic manipulation of intraspinal plasticity after spinal cord injury alters the severity of autonomic dysreflexia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2923-2932

  Cameron, Adrian A ^a,b   Smith, George M ^a   Randall, David C ^a   Brown, David R ^a   Rabchevsky, Alexander G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Nerve growth factor; Neurotrophin; Semaphorin 3A; Sprouting; Sympathetic

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GROWTH INHIBITOR; GROWTH PROMOTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SEMAPHORIN 3A;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; COLON DILATATION; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HEART FUNCTION; HISTOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INJECTION SITE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MICROINJECTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORACIC SPINE;

ADENOVIRIDAE; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; AUTONOMIC FIBERS, PREGANGLIONIC; AXONS; BRADYCARDIA; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; COLON; CORDOTOMY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HYPERTENSION; MICROINJECTIONS; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECTUM; SEMAPHORIN-3A; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SUBSTANCE P; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 33644991475     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4390-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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