A recoverable state of axon injury persists for hours after spinal cord contusion in vivo

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Williams, Philip R ^a   Marincu, Bogdan Nicolae ^a   Sorbara, Catherine D ^a,b   Mahler, Christoph F ^b   Schumacher, Adrian Minh ^b   Griesbeck, Oliver ^c   Kerschensteiner, Martin ^b,d   Misgeld, Thomas ^a,d,e,f  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Technische Universität München Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

^e Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science   (Germany)

^f GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALPAIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIVALENT CATION; PHOTOPROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

BONE; CALCIUM; INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; ANIMAL; CONVALESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ION TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CALPAIN; CATIONS, DIVALENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; ION TRANSPORT; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR IMAGING; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84922594767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6683     Document Type: Article

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