C-Jun N-terminal kinase induces axonal degeneration and limits motor recovery after spinal cord injury in mice

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 266-277

  Yoshimura, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Ueno, Masaki ^a,c   Lee, Sachiko ^a   Nakamura, Yuka ^a,c   Sato, Akinobu ^a,c   Yoshimura, Koichi ^d   Kishima, Haruhiko ^b   Yoshimine, Toshiki ^b   Yamashita, Toshihide ^a,b,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axon degeneration; JNK; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ANTHRA[1,9 CD]PYRAZOL 6(2H) ONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 10; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ANTHRACENES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 10; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 8; NERVE REGENERATION; PARALYSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 80053213956     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.07.1830     Document Type: Article

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