Microglial responses around intrinsic CNS neurons are correlated with axonal regeneration

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shokouhi, Bahman N ^a   Wong, Bernadette Z Y ^a   Siddiqui, Samir ^a   Lieberman, A Robert ^a   Campbell, Gregor ^a   Tohyama, Koujiro ^b   Anderson, Patrick N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FEMALE; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE SHEATH; NEURITIS; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; RED NUCLEUS; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THALAMUS; ANIMAL; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DEATH; FACIAL NERVE; FREEZING; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DEATH; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FREEZING; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RED NUCLEUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 77649086437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-11-13     Document Type: Article

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