Transforming growth factor α transforms astrocytes to a growth-supportive phenotype after spinal cord injury

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 42, 2011, Pages 15173-15187

  White, Robin E ^a   Rao, Meghan ^b   Gensel, John C ^a   McTigue, Dana M ^a   Kaspar, Brian K ^a,b   Jakeman, Lyn B ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SCAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LAMINS; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 80054773465     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3441-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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