Graft of pre-injured sural nerve promotes regeneration of corticospinal tract and functional recovery in rats with chronic spinal cord injury

Brain Research

Volumn 1209, Issue , 2008, Pages 40-48

  Feng, Shi Qing ^a,b   Zhou, Xin Fu ^a   Rush, Robert A ^a   Ferguson, Ian A ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Neurotrophins; Schwann Cells; Spinal cord injury; Sural nerve transplantation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEG MOVEMENT; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SURAL NERVE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

RATTUS;

EID: 42749083848     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.02.075     Document Type: Article

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