Dorsal column sensory axons degenerate due to impaired microvascular perfusion after spinal cord injury in rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 249, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-73

  Muradov, Johongir M ^a,b   Ewan, Eric E ^a,b   Hagg, Theo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal degeneration; Blood flow; Capillaries; Contusion; Ischemia; Oligodendrocytes; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ETHIDIUM BROMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; DEMYELINATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; MICROVASCULATURE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA;

AXONAL DEGENERATION; BLOOD FLOW; CAPILLARIES; CONTUSION; ISCHEMIA; OLIGODENDROCYTES; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FEMALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 84884166394     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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