Degradation of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans potentiates transplant-mediated axonal remodeling and functional recovery after spinal cord injury in adult rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 497, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 182-198

  Kim, Byung G ^a,b   Dai, Hai Ning ^a   Lynskey, James V ^a,c   McAtee, Marietta ^a   Bregman, Barbara S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal remodeling; Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans; Functional recovery; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE 4 SULFATASE; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HOST; INNERVATION; LOCOMOTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOTIN; CELL COUNT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHONDROITIN ABC LYASE; DEXTRANS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33744733410     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20980     Document Type: Article

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