Early necrosis and apoptosis of Schwann cells transplanted into the injured rat spinal cord

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1433-1445

  Hill, Caitlin E ^a   Hurtado, Andres ^a,b   Blits, Bas ^a   Bahr, Ben A ^c   Wood, Patrick M ^a   Bartlett Bunge, Mary ^a   Oudega, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Calpain; Caspase; Cell death; Contusion; Fodrin breakdown product; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CASPASE 3; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AXONS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NECROSIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHWANN CELLS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 34548678874     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05771.x     Document Type: Article

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