Drug screening of neuroprotective agents on an organotypic-based model of spinal cord excitotoxic damage

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 335-349

  Guzmán Lenis, Mónica Sofía ^a   Navarro, Xavier ^a   Casas, Caty ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE NEUROCIÈNCIES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Motor neuron disease; Neurodegeneration; NMDA; Rat; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

EPO; ERYTHROPOIETIN; ETHIDIUM HOMODIMER 1; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HOMODIMER; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MP; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT SMI32; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; RILUZOLE; ROLIPRAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SCREENING; EXCITOTOXICITY; EXPLANT; MOTONEURON; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 70349134293     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2009-0482     Document Type: Article

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