Expression of some neurotrophins in the spinal motoneurons after cord hemisection in adult rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 410, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 222-227

  Qin, Dan Xia ^a   Zou, Xiao li ^b   Luo, Wei ^a   Zhang, Wei ^b   Zhang, Hong Tian ^a   Li, Xiao Li ^a   Zhang, Han ^a   Wang, Xu Yang ^a   Wang, Ting Hua ^a,b  

^a KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Basso Beattie Bresnahan (BBB) scoring; BDNF; Hemisection; NGF; NT 3; Rats

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750989094     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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