Retrograde transport of a traditional Chinese medicine, α-trichosanthin, and its selective neural toxicity Transport of TCS and its neural toxicity

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 876-883

  Shen, Wei Zai ^a,b   Sha, Ou ^a   Yew, David Tai Wai ^a   Kwong, Wing Hang ^a  

^a Prince of Wales Hospital   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

Author keywords

Motor neuron; Myelinated axon; Retrograde transport; Sensory neuron; Trichosanthin; Unmyelinated axon

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TRICHOSANTHIN; CHINESE DRUG; RHODAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTONEURON; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHODAMINES; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SPINAL CORD; TRICHOSANTHIN;

RATTUS;

EID: 70350446768     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650903234713     Document Type: Article

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