Down-regulation of glial fibrillary acidic protein and vimentin by RNA interference improves acute urinary dysfunction associated with spinal cord injury in rats

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 607-618

  Toyooka, Terushige ^a   Nawashiro, Hiroshi ^a   Shinomiya, Nariyoshi ^a   Shima, Katsuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

bladder dysfunction; intermediate filament protein; reactive gliosis; small interfering RNA; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ATELOCOLLAGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIMENTIN;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLIOMA CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION; URINATION DISORDERS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 79953834604     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1520     Document Type: Article

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