Recovery from spinal cord injury differs between rat strains in a major histocompatibility complex-independent manner

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1118-1127

  Birdsall Abrams, M ^a,b   Josephson, Anna ^a   Dominguez, Cecilia ^c   Öberg, Johanna ^a   Diez, Margarita ^c   Spenger, Christian ^a   Olson, Lars ^a   Piehl, Fredrik ^c   Lidman, Olle ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Genetic; Inbred strain; Inflammation; Major histocompatibility complex; Recovery; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DARK AGOUTI RAT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEWIS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIEBALD VIROL GLAXO RAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT STRAIN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECTODYSPLASINS; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOCOMOTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548363877     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05725.x     Document Type: Article

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