The nerve regenerative microenvironment: Early behavior and partnership of axons and Schwann cells

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-59

  Webber, Christine ^a   Zochodne, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; FIBRONECTIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; LAMININ; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL COMMUNICATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; MICROENVIRONMENT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SCHWANN CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SCHWANN CELLS;

EID: 77950864759     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.05.037     Document Type: Review

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