Resection of glial scar following spinal cord injury

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 931-936

  Rasouli, Alexandre ^a   Bhatia, Nitin ^a   Dinh, Paul ^a   Cahill, Kim ^a   Suryadevara, Sourabh ^a   Gupta, Ranjan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Axon regeneration; Glial scar; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; SCAR; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD SURGERY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CICATRIX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYELITIS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 67649610435     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.20793     Document Type: Article

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