The role of macrophages in optic nerve regeneration

Neuroscience

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1039-1048

  Cui, Q ^a   Yin, Y ^b   Benowitz, L I ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

central nervous system; inflammation; monocytes; oncomodulin; optic nerve; regeneration

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTOKINE; MACROPHAGE DERIVED CHEMOKINE; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; ONCOMODULIN;

CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EYE; EYE DISEASE; GLAUCOMA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; MONOCYTE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; VISUAL SYSTEM; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NERVE REGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NEURITIS; RATS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 59349094945     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.07.036     Document Type: Review

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