Motor axonal regeneration after partial and complete spinal cord transection

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8208-8218

  Lu, Paul ^a,b   Blesch, Armin ^a,c   Graham, Lori ^a   Wang, Yaozhi ^a   Samara, Ramsey ^a   Banos, Karla ^a   Haringer, Verena ^a   Havton, Leif ^d   Weishaupt, Nina ^e   Bennett, David ^e   Fouad, Karim ^e   Tuszynski, Mark H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROOMING; HISTOLOGY; MOTOR NERVE; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STROMA CELL; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CYCLIC AMP; DEPENDOVIRUS; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; MOTOR NEURONS; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84861953728     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0308-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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