Heterogeneous spine loss in layer 5 cortical neurons after spinal cord injury

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1309-1317

  Ghosh, Arko ^a,b   Peduzzi, Stefano ^a   Snyder, Moina ^a   Schneider, Regula ^a   Starkey, Michelle ^c   Schwab, Martin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

cortical plasticity; corticospinal; dendritic spine; spinal cord injury; synapses

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYNAPSE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84861551564     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr191     Document Type: Article

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