Spinal Cord Injury and the Neuron-Intrinsic Regeneration-Associated Gene Program

NeuroMolecular Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 799-813

  Fagoe, Nitish D ^a   van Heest, Jessica ^a   Verhaagen, Joost ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AAV; Axon regeneration; CNS; RAG program; Spinal cord injury; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ALPHA9 INTEGRIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE PCAF; KINDLIN 1; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; NERVE PROTEIN;

ALPHA9 INTEGRIN GENE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE PCAF GENE; HUMAN; KINDLIN 1 GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; REGENERATION ASSOCIATED GENE; SCAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAT3 GENE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRAL GENE THERAPY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; CONVALESCENCE; DEPENDOPARVOVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE THERAPY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THERAPEUTIC USE;

MUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; DEPENDOVIRUS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84920440013     PISSN: 15351084     EISSN: 15591174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12017-014-8329-3     Document Type: Article

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