Early growth hormone (GH) treatment promotes relevant motor functional improvement after severe frontal cortex lesion in adult rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 247, Issue , 2013, Pages 48-58

  Heredia, Margarita ^a,c   Fuente, A ^a,c   Criado, J ^a,c   Yajeya, J ^a,c   Devesa, J ^b   Riolobos, A S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Frontal motor cortex lesion; GH; Nestin; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GROWTH HORMONE; NESTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REHABILITATION CARE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; FORELIMB; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GROWTH HORMONE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84876338165     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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