Directing dopaminergic fiber growth along a preformed molecular pathway from embryonic ventral mesencephalon transplants in the rat brain

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 619-627

  Jin, Y ^a   Zhang, C ^a   Ziemba, K S ^a   Goldstein, G A ^b   Sullivan, P G ^a   Smith, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b David Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon growth; Gene therapy; Neurotrophic factors; Transplantation; Ventral mesencephalon (VM)

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; CHONDROITIN ABC LYASE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; FEMALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; VENTRAL MESENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GROWTH CONES; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARKINSON DISEASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 79952512033     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22575     Document Type: Article

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