Accelerating axonal growth promotes motor recovery after peripheral nerve injury in mice

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4332-4347

  Ma, Chi Him Eddie ^a,f   Omura, Takao ^a   Cobos, Enrique J ^a   Latrémolière, Alban ^a   Ghasemlou, Nader ^a   Brenner, Gary J ^b   Van Veen, Ed ^c   Barrett, Lee ^a   Sawada, Tomokazu ^d   Gao, Fuying ^e   Coppola, Giovanni ^e   Gertler, Frank ^c   Costigan, Michael ^a   Geschwind, Dan ^e   Woolf, Clifford J ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; GROWTH ACCELERATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HSP27 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ENDPLATE; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80555142889     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI58675     Document Type: Article

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