Strapping the spinal cord: An innovative experimental model of CNS injury in rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 130-139

  da Costa, Elizabete Sant'Anna ^a   Carvalho, Antonia Lima ^a   Martinez, Ana Maria Blanco ^a   De Ary Pires, Bernardo ^a   Pires Neto, Mário Ary ^a   de Ary Pires, Ricardo ^a  

^a Centro de Ciencias da Sau   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Paraplegia; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD LESION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 41049083501     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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