Regeneration of descending projections in Xenopus laevis tadpole spinal cord demonstrated by retrograde double labeling

Brain Research

Volumn 1088, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-72

  Gibbs, Kurt M ^a   Szaro, Ben G ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon regeneration; Spinal cord reinnervation; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

AMINE; DEXTRAN; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; METAMORPHOSIS; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RETICULUM CELL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; TADPOLE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; DEXTRANS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE REGENERATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RHODAMINES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33646584185     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.02.126     Document Type: Article

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