Minimum information about a spinal cord injury experiment: A proposed reporting standard for spinal cord injury experiments

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 1354-1361

  Lemmon, Vance P ^a   Ferguson, Adam R ^b   Popovich, Phillip G ^c   Xu, Xiao Ming ^d   Snow, Diane M ^e   Igarashi, Michihiro ^f   Beattie, Christine E ^c   Bixby, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^f NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

axonal injury; axonal regeneration; MIASCI; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHECKLIST; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MINIMUM INFORMATION ABOUT A SPINAL CORD INJURY CHECKLIST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; ANIMAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDARDS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84905221020     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3400     Document Type: Article

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