Neuronal loss and expression of neurotrophic factors in a model of rat chronic compressive spinal cord injury

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 2059-2066

  Kasahara, Kazuma ^a   Nakagawa, Takao ^a   Kubota, Toshihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Chronic compression; Decompression; Neuronal loss; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; POLYMER; URETHAN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINECTOMY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINE;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; CELL DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33747354090     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000231893.21964.f2     Document Type: Article

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