Retrograde axonal degeneration ("dieback") in the corticospinal tract after transection injury of the rat spinal cord: A confocal microscopy study

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1513-1528

  Seif, Gamal I ^a   Nomura, Hiroshi ^b   Tator, Charles H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal studies; Axonal injury; Confocal microscopy; Degeneration; Traumatic spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETROGRADE DEGENERATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34848852247     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2007.0323     Document Type: Article

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