The effects of FGF-2 gene therapy combined with voluntary exercise on axonal regeneration across peripheral nerve gaps

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 443, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 179-183

  Haastert, Kirsten ^a   Ying, Zhe ^b   Grothe, Claudia ^a   Gómez Pinilla, Fernando ^b  

^a CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ex vivo gene therapy; Peripheral nerve regeneration; Schwann cells; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROMODULIN; SILICONE; SYNAPSIN I;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; LUMBAR SPINE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GAP-43 PROTEIN; GENE THERAPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SYNAPSINS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 50249130179     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.087     Document Type: Article

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