STAT3 promotes corticospinal remodelling and functional recovery after spinal cord injury

EMBO Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 931-937

  Lang, Claudia ^a   Bradley, Peter M ^a   Jacobi, Anne ^a   Kerschensteiner, Martin ^a,b   Bareyre, Florence M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Germany 3 Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonal remodelling; corticospinal tract; neuronal plasticity; spinal cord injury; STAT3

Indexed keywords

PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VIRAL GENE THERAPY;

ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84885309726     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2013.117     Document Type: Article

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