Blocking connexin43 expression reduces inflammation and improves functional recovery after spinal cord injury

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 152-160

  Cronin, Michael ^a   Anderson, Patrick N ^a   Cook, Jeremy E ^a   Green, Colin R ^b   Becker, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Activation; Antisense oligonucleotide; Astrocytes; Behavioural testing; Compression; Gap junctions; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Microglia; Neutrophils; Rat; Transection; Vascular endothelial cells; Vascular permeability

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL DISRUPTION; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICROGLIA; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD11B; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INFLAMMATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICROGLIA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

BOVINAE; RATTUS;

EID: 52049127024     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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