Adenovirus-mediated retrograde transfer of neurotrophin-3 gene enhances survival of anterior horn neurons of twy/twy mice with chronic mechanical compression of the spinal cord

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1789-1800

  Uchida, Kenzo ^a   Nakajima, Hideaki ^a   Inukai, Tomoo ^a   Takamura, Takaharu ^a   Kobayashi, Shigeru ^a   Furukawa, Shoei ^b   Baba, Hisatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b GIFU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenoviral vector (AdV); Anterior horn neuron; Neurotrophin 3 (NT 3); Retrograde gene transfer; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NEUROTROPHIN 3; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

EID: 45549105471     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21627     Document Type: Article

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