Glial and axonal responses in areas of Wallerian degeneration of the corticospinal and dorsal ascending tracts after spinal cord dorsal funiculotomy

Neuropathology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 230-241

  Wang, Li ^b,c   Hu, Bing ^c   Wong, Wai M ^c   Lu, Peihua ^b   Wu, Wutian ^c   Xu, Xiao Ming ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Axons; Microglia; Oligodendrocytes; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ASCENDING TRACT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL FUNICULOTOMY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD SURGERY;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MACROPHAGES; MICROGLIA; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROGLIA; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 65649151402     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2008.00969.x     Document Type: Article

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