FGF-2-treatment improves locomotor function via axonal regeneration in the transected rat spinal cord

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1333-1339

  Furukawa, Shoei ^a   Furukawa, Yoshiko ^b  

^a GIFU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MATSUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; FGF 2; Locomotor function; Neurotrophic factors; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROBLAST; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY ENSHEATHING CELL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AXONS; DENERVATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLASTS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 37349087883     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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