Cocultures of rat sensorimotor cortex and spinal cord Slices to investigate corticospinal tract sprouting

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Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2494-2499

  Stavridis, Stavros I ^a,b   Dehghani, Faramarz ^a   Korf, Horst Werner ^a   Hailer, Nils P ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Mini Ruby. Spine 2009; 34:2494 2499; Neurotrophin 3 spinal cord slice culture; Sensorimotor cortex; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

AMINE; DEXTRAN; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAY MATTER; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NONHUMAN; PIA MATER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SCREENING; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE SLICE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOTIN; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DEXTRANS; GROWTH CONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROTROPHIN 3; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RHODAMINES; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 70449473138     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181b4abd8     Document Type: Article

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