Global expression of NGF promotes sympathetic axonal growth in CNS white matter but does not alter its parallel orientation

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-109

  Pettigrew, David B ^a   Li, Ya Qin ^a   Kuntz IV, Charles ^a   Crutcher, Keith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Axonal guidance; Axonal regeneration; Chemotropism; Geometry; GFAP; Gradient; Laminin; Neurotrophin; Neurotropism; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXOTOMY; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CICATRIX; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROWTH CONES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE REGENERATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33751414336     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.07.026     Document Type: Article

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