A select combination of neurotrophins enhances neuroprotection and functional recovery following spinal cord injury

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1122, Issue , 2007, Pages 95-111

  Sharma, Hari Shanker ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Department of Neurobiology ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

BDNF; Blood spinal cord barrier; Cell injury; GDNF; Motor function; NGF; Spinal cord edema; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; EQUITHESIN; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL DAMAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; INJURY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VERTEBRA;

RATTUS;

EID: 37048999111     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1403.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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