Lesion size-dependent synaptic and astrocytic responses in cortex contralateral to infarcts in middle-aged rats

Synapse

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 659-671

  Kim, Soo Young ^a   Jones, Theresa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Denervation; Forelimb behavior; Perisynaptic astrocytes; Stereology; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DENDRITE; DRUG EFFECTS; FORELIMB; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPIL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ENDOTHELIN 1; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DENDRITES; ENDOTHELIN-1; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; NEUROPIL; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 77956473208     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20777     Document Type: Article

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