Glial scar borders are formed by newly proliferated, elongated astrocytes that interact to corral inflammatory and fibrotic cells via STAT3-dependent mechanisms after spinal cord injury

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 12870-12886

  Wanner, Ina B ^a   Anderson, Mark A ^b   Song, Bingbing ^b   Levine, Jaclynn ^a   Fernandez, Ana ^a   Gray Thompson, Zachary ^a   Ao, Yan ^b   Sofroniew, Michael V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSIS; GLIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MENINX; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD45; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CICATRIX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIBRONECTINS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INFLAMMATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; THYMIDINE KINASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880851472     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2121-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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