NMDA receptor blockade retards axonal growth in the transected spinal cord

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2361-2364

  Doyle, Louise M F ^a,b   Roberts, Barry L ^a,c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

APV; Axonal growth; Central pattern generators; Locomotion; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

DEXTRO 2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDOTOMY; DENERVATION; EEL; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SWIMMING;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARBOCYANINES; DRUG IMPLANTS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; LOCOMOTION; NERVE REGENERATION; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 8444222362     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200410250-00012     Document Type: Article

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