A re-assessment of the effects of intracortical delivery of inosine on transmidline growth of corticospinal tract axons after unilateral lesions of the medullary pyramid

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 662-673

  Steward, Oswald ^a   Sharp, Kelli ^a   Yee, Kelly Matsudaira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BDA; Biotinylated dextran amine; CNS injury; Corticospinal tract; Lesions; Medullary pyramid; Plasticity; Pyramidal tract; Rat; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

INOSINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLARY PYRAMID; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; INOSINE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE REGENERATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84856554384     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.09.019     Document Type: Article

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