Brain fiber tract plasticity in experimental spinal cord injury: Diffusion tensor imaging

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 100-107

  Ramu, Jaivijay ^a   Herrera, Juan ^a   Grill, Raymond ^a   Bockhorst, Tobias ^a   Narayana, Ponnada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROMODULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAP-43 PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GROWTH CONES; INTERNAL CAPSULE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 44649155643     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.03.018     Document Type: Article

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