Locomotor exercise alters expression of pro-brain-derived neurotrophic factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and its receptor TrkB in the spinal cord of adult rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2425-2444

  MacIas, Matylda ^a   Dwornik, Anna ^a   Ziemlinska, Ewelina ^a   Fehr, Susanna ^b   Schachner, Melitta ^b   Czarkowska Bauch, Julita ^a   Skup, Malgorzata ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult rat; BDNF; Locomotor exercise; Pro BDNF; Spinal cord plasticity; TrkB

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROBRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITTING; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, TRKB; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 34247269279     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05498.x     Document Type: Article

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