Involvement of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and sonic hedgehog in the spinal cord plasticity after neurotoxic partial removal of lumbar motoneurons

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 238-247

  Gulino, Rosario ^a,b   Gulisano, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b IOM Ricerca srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

BDNF; BSA; Cholera toxin B saporin; CTB SAP; Glutamate; NMDAR1; PBS; SC; SCI; SDS; Shh; Sonic hedgehog; Spinal cord; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 4; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; SAPORIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; SYNAPSIN I;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD PLASTICITY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 84861576712     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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