Enhancement of sciatic nerve regeneration by adenovirus-mediated expression of dominant negative RhoA and Rac1

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 492, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-69

  Kusano, Kazuo ^a   Enomoto, Mitsuhiro ^a   Hirai, Takashi ^a   Wakabayashi, Yoshiaki ^a   Itoh, Soichiro ^b   Ichinose, Shizuko ^a   Okabe, Shigeo ^c   Shinomiya, Kenichi ^a   Okawa, Atsushi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Peripheral nerve injury; Recombinant adenovirus; Regeneration; Small G protein

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; CHITOSAN; RAC1 PROTEIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENETIC VECTORS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURITES; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SCIATIC NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79952003282     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.01.058     Document Type: Article

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