Acute glial activation by stab injuries does not lead to overt damage or motor neuron degeneration in the G93A mutant SOD1 rat model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 346-352

  Suzuki, Masatoshi ^a,b,c   Klein, Sandra ^a   Wetzel, Elizabeth A ^a   Meyer, Michael ^a   McHugh, Jacalyn ^a   Tork, Craig ^a   Hayes, Antonio ^a   Svendsen, Clive N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute trauma; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Astrocyte activation; Motor neuron; SOD1G93A rats; Spinal cord; Stab injury

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GUANINE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DEGENERATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUTANT; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAB WOUND; WILD TYPE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIGENS, CD11B; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; RATS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 73949144424     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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