Local and distal responses to injury in the rapid functional recovery from spinal cord contusion in rat pups

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 225-237

  Leung, Philberta Y ^a   Wrathall, Jean R ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contusion; GFAP; Nestin; Norepinephrine; Oligodendrocytes; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NESTIN; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLIA CELL; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MONOAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; UPREGULATION; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; OLIGODENDROGLIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748432956     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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