Time-specific microRNA changes during spinal motoneuron degeneration in adult rats following unilateral brachial plexus root avulsion: Ipsilateral vs. Contralateral changes

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tang, Ying ^a   Ling, Ze Min ^a   Fu, Rao ^a   Li, Ying Qin ^a,b   Cheng, Xiao ^a   Song, Fa Huan ^a   Luo, Hao Xuan ^a   Zhou, Li Hua ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIFTH AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ATF 3; Brachial root avulsion; c jun; Calpain 2; Inflammatory response; Microarray; MicroRNA; nNOS

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 106B 3P; MICRORNA 124 3P; MICRORNA 125B 5P; MICRORNA 142 3P; MICRORNA 146B 5P; MICRORNA 18A; MICRORNA 18A 3P; MICRORNA 19B 3P; MICRORNA 20B 5P; MICRORNA 21 5P; MICRORNA 23B 3P; MICRORNA 27A 3P; MICRORNA 293 3P; MICRORNA 29A 3P; MICRORNA 29B 3P; MICRORNA 30C 5P; MICRORNA 31A 3P; MICRORNA 322 5P; MICRORNA 324 3P; MICRORNA 34A 5P; MICRORNA 352; MICRORNA 451 5P; MICRORNA 466C 3P; MICRORNA 484; MICRORNA 9A 3P; MICRORNA 9A 5P; MICRORNA LET 7A 5P; MICRORNA LET 7C 5P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BIOINFORMATICS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ROOT AVULSION; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; CERVICAL SPINE; DISEASE COURSE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICRORNAS; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE DEGENERATION; RADICULOPATHY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84904529795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-15-92     Document Type: Article

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