Viral vector-based improvement of optic nerve regeneration: Characterization of individual axons' growth patterns and synaptogenesis in a visual target

Gene Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 811-821

  Yungher, B J ^a   Luo, X ^a   Salgueiro, Y ^a   Blackmore, M G ^b   Park, K K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; SHORT HAIRPIN PTEN1; SHORT HAIRPIN PTEN4; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; STAT3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PTEN PROTEIN, HUMAN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; DRUG TARGETING; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VIRAL GENE THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; DEPENDOPARVOVIRUS; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DEPENDOVIRUS; GENETIC VECTORS; MICE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROGENESIS; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84943457295     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: 14765462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gt.2015.51     Document Type: Article

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