Rodent spinal cord demyelination models

Animal Models of Acute Neurological Injuries

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 471-478

  Jernigan, Sarah C ^a   Zhang, Yi Ping ^a   Shields, Christopher B ^a   Whittemore, Scott R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cuprizone; Demyelination; Ethidium bromide; Lysolethicin; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900588826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-185-1_40     Document Type: Chapter

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