Sciatic nerve grafting and inoculation of FGF-2 promotes improvement of motor behavior and fiber regrowth in rats with spinal cord transection

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 265-275

  Guzen, Fausto Pierdoná ^a   Soares, Joacil Germano ^a   De Freitas, Leandro Moura ^a   De Paiva Cavalcanti, José Rodolfo Lopes ^a   Oliveira, Francisco Gilberto ^a   Araújo, John Fontenele ^a   De Souza Cavalcante, Jeferson ^a   Cavalcante, Judney Cley ^a   Do Nascimento, Expedito Silva ^a   De Oliveira Costa, Miriam Stela Maris ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

fibroblastic growth factor 2 and motor behavior; Neuroregeneration; sciatic nerve graft; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NEUROMODULIN; SODIUM CEPHALEXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE GRAFT; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

EID: 84863000145     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2012-110184     Document Type: Article

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