Functional recovery, serotonergic sprouting, and endogenous progenitor fates in response to delayed environmental enrichment after spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 514-527

  Koopmans, Guido C ^a,b   Deumens, Ronald ^a,c,f   Honig, Wiel M M ^a   Hamers, Frank P T ^d   Mey, Jörg ^c,e,f   Van Kleef, Maarten ^a   Joosten, Elbert A ^a,f  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Algiax Pharmaceuticals GmbH   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Rehabilitation Hospital Tolburg   (Netherlands)

^e HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE PARAPLÉJICOS   (Spain)

^f EURON Graduate School of Neuroscience   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

enrichment; injury; progenitor; recovery; serotonin; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; GLIA CELL; GRAY MATTER; INNERVATION; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; RAT; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SEROTONERGIC INNERVATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; ANTIMETABOLITES; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTUSIONS; ENVIRONMENT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE NET; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84857298381     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2011.1949     Document Type: Article

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