A transgenic rat expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) in peripheral nerves provides a new hindlimb model for the study of nerve injury and regeneration

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-27

  Moore, Amy M ^a   Borschel, Gregory H ^b,c,d   Santosa, Katherine B ^a   Flagg, Eric R ^a   Tong, Alice Y ^a   Kasukurthi, Rahul ^a   Newton, Piyaraj ^a   Yan, Ying ^a   Hunter, Daniel A ^a   Johnson, Philip J ^a   Mackinnon, Susan E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Fluorescence microscopy; Green fluorescent protein; Nerve regeneration; Peripheral nerve; Transgenic rat

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE; HINDLIMB; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE ENDING; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SCIATIC NERVE; THY1 GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC RAT;

EID: 82055194414     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.10.011     Document Type: Article

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