Functional and histological outcome after focal traumatic brain injury is not improved in conditional EphA4 knockout mice

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2660-2671

  Hånell, Anders ^a   Clausen, Fredrik ^a   Djupsjö, Anders ^a   Vallstedt, Anna ^b   Patra, Kalicharan ^b   Israelsson, Charlotte ^b   Larhammar, Martin ^b   Björk, Maria ^a   Paixão, Sónia ^c   Kullander, Klas ^b   Marklund, Niklas ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

axonal regeneration; behavior; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN RECEPTOR A4; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, EPHA4; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84870537753     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2012.2376     Document Type: Article

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