Chondroitinase ABC promotes sprouting of intact and injured spinal systems after spinal cord injury

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 42, 2006, Pages 10856-10867

  Barritt, A W ^a   Davies, M ^a   Marchand, F ^a   Hartley, R ^a   Grist, J ^a   Yip, P ^a   McMahon, S B ^a   Bradbury, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Denervation; Plasticity; Proteoglycan; Regeneration; Repair; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CHONDROITIN ABC LYASE; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CHONDROITIN ABC LYASE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750932815     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2980-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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