Long descending cervical propriospinal neurons differ from thoracic propriospinal neurons in response to low thoracic spinal injury

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Siebert, Justin R ^a   Middleton, Frank A ^a   Stelzner, Dennis J ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; STAT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROPRIOSPINAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINE INJURY; THORACIC SPINE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; INJURY; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 78549281463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-11-148     Document Type: Article

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