Prominent microglial activation in the early proinflammatory immune response in naturally occurring canine spinal cord injury

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 703-714

  Spitzbarth, Ingo ^a,c   Bock, Patricia ^a   Haist, Verena ^a   Stein, Veronika Maria ^a   Tipold, Andrea ^a,c   Wewetzer, Konstantin ^a,b,c   Baumgärtner, Wolfgang ^a,c   Beineke, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Dog; Inflammation; Microglia; Organotypic slice culture; Spinal cord injury; Translational research

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CANINE ADENOVIRUS; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DOGS; EPHRIN-A2; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICROGLIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 79961031923     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: 15546578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NEN.0b013e3182270f8e     Document Type: Article

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