An in vitro model of adult mammalian nerve repair

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-118

  Vyas, Alka ^a   Li, Zhaobo ^a   Aspalter, Manuela ^a   Feiner, Jeffrey ^b   Hoke, Ahmet ^b   Zhou, Chunhua ^b   O'Daly, Andres ^a   Abdullah, Madeel ^a   Rohde, Charles ^c   Brushart, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Coculture; GFP; Motoneuron; Mouse; Nerve graft; Organotypic culture; Regeneration; Schwann cell

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; MAMMAL; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DEXTRANS; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE REGENERATION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RHODAMINES; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 77950861211     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.05.022     Document Type: Article

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