Motor enrichment sustains hindlimb movement recovered after spinal cord injury and glial transplantation

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 147-161

  Moon, L D F ^a,d   Leasure, J L ^b,e   Gage, F H ^b   Bunge, M B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hindlimb movement; Injury; Motor enrichment; Olfactory ensheathing glia; Rehabilitation; Schwann cells; Spinal cord transection

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRACER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CAGE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; GANGLION; GLIA CELL; HINDLIMB; HOUSING; JOINT FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY ENSHEATHING CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; REGENERATION; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOVEMENT; NEUROGLIA; PROTEOGLYCANS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746053406     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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