Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging of wallerian degeneration in rat spinal cord after dorsal root axotomy

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3160-3171

  Zhang, Jiangyang ^a   Jones, Melina ^a   Deboy, Cynthia A ^a   Reich, Daniel S ^a   Farrell, Jonathan A D ^a,c   Hoffman, Paul N ^a   Griffin, John W ^a   Sheikh, Kazim A ^a   Miller, Michael I ^a,b   Mori, Susumu ^a,c   Calabresi, Peter A ^a,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; FAST BLUE; MYELIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DORSAL ROOT; DORSAL ROOT AXOTOMY; FEMALE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TIME FACTORS; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 63849164222     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3941-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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