Acute spinal cord injury in vitro: Insight into basic mechanisms

Neuromethods

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 39-62

  Mladinic, Miranda ^a,b   Nistri, Andrea ^a,b   Taccola, Giuliano ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Medicina Fisica e Riabilitazione   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell death; Central pattern generator; Excitotoxicity; Hypoxia; Ischemia; Motoneurons; Rat spinal cord

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; OXYGEN RADICAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSGLYCEMIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITOTOXICITY; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL ROOT;

RATTUS;

EID: 84875417094     PISSN: 08932336     EISSN: 19406045     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-197-4_3     Document Type: Article

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