Induction of VEGF and its Flt-I receptor after sciatic nerve crush injury

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2117-2121

  Islamov, Rustem R ^a   Chintalgattu, Vishnu ^a   Pak, Elena S ^a   Katwa, Laxmansa C ^a   Murashov, Alexander K ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flk 1; Flt 1; Motor neurons; Regeneration; Sciatic nerve; VEGF

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; NERVE CRUSH; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SPINAL CORD; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1;

EID: 4644220425     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200409150-00024     Document Type: Article

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