Treadmill training stimulates brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA expression in motor neurons of the lumbar spinal cord in spinally transected rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 224, Issue , 2012, Pages 135-144

  Joseph, M S ^a   Tillakaratne, N J K ^b   de Leon, R D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body weight supported treadmill training; Locomotion; Neurotrophins; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VENTRAL HORN CELL;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MOTOR NEURONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84866281535     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.08.024     Document Type: Article

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