Regeneration of adult mice motoneurons utilizing a defined system and anti-oxidant nanoparticles

Journal of Nanoneuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 130-143

  Bhargava, Neelima ^a   Das, Mainak ^a   Karakoti, Ajay S ^b   Patil, Swanand ^b   Kang, Jung Fong ^a   Stancescu, Maria ^a   Kindy, Mark S ^c   Seal, Sudipta ^b   Hickman, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult mice; Adult motoneuron; Antioxidant; Cerium oxide nanoparticles; Serum free medium; Silane substrate; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CERIUM OXIDE; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; HEPARAN SULFATE; NANOPARTICLE; SILANE DERIVATIVE; VASCULOTROPIN; VITRONECTIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COUNT; CELL GROWTH; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 77953309060     PISSN: 19390637     EISSN: 19390653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jns.2009.1002     Document Type: Article

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