Acetylcholine release from fetal tissue homotopically grafted to the motoneuron-depleted lumbar spinal cord. An in vivo microdialysis study in the awake rat

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 326-338

  Gulino, Rosario ^a   Cataudella, Tiziana ^a   Casamenti, Fiorella ^b   Pepeu, Giancarlo ^b   Stanzani, Stefania ^a   Leanza, Giampiero ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Neurotransmitter release; Rat; Recovery; Transplantation; Volkensin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; TETRODOTOXIN; VOLKENSIN;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL LOSS; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DEPOLARIZATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG INHIBITION; FEMALE; FETUS; IN VIVO STUDY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEM CELL; TISSUE GRAFT; WAKEFULNESS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTOR NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 33847288209     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.11.011     Document Type: Article

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