The immunosuppressant mycophenolate mofetil improves preservation of the perforant path in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures: A retrograde tracing study

Hippocampus

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 437-442

  Oest, Tilman M ^a,b   Dehghani, Faramarz ^a   Korf, Horst Werner ^a   Hailer, Nils P ^b,c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dil; Immunosuppression; Neuroprotection; Rat; Retrograde labeling

Indexed keywords

1,1' DIOCTADECYL 3,3,3',3' TETRAMETHYLINDOCARBOCYANINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITOTOXICITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33745119046     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20182     Document Type: Article

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