Mechanical breaking of microtubules in axons during dynamic stretch injury underlies delayed elasticity, microtubule disassembly, and axon degeneration

FASEB Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1401-1410

  Tang Schomer, Min D ^a   Patel, Ankur R ^a   Baas, Peter W ^b   Smith, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Micropattern; Taxol; Traumatic axonal injury; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

NOCODAZOLE; PACLITAXEL; SILICONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; EMBRYO; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN INJURIES; CELLS, CULTURED; ELASTICITY; MICROTUBULES; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 77952295350     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.09-142844     Document Type: Article

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