Differential effect of aging on axon sprouting and regenerative growth in spinal cord injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 284-294

  Jaerve, Anne ^a   Schiwy, Nora ^a,b   Schmitz, Christine ^a   Mueller, Hans W ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Spinal Cord Therapeutics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Axon regeneration; Axon sprouting; Cyclic AMP; Dorsal hemisection; Intrathecal infusion; Iron chelator; Lesion scarring; Spinal cord injury; Stromal cell derived factor 1

Indexed keywords

2,2' DIPYRIDINE 5,5' DICARBOXYLIC ACID; 8 BROMO CYCLIC AMP; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CATECHOLAMINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR7; DICARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SEROTONIN; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; COERULOSPINAL TRACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAPHESPINAL TRACT; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

AGING; ANIMALS; AXONS; CHEMOKINE CXCL12; FEMALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROGENESIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 80052532414     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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