Comprehensive corticospinal labeling with mu-crystallin transgene reveals axon regeneration after spinal cord trauma in ngr1−/− mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 46, 2015, Pages 15403-15418

  Fink, Kathren L ^a   Strittmatter, Stephen M ^a   Cafferty, William B J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Nogo receptor; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury; Transgene

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MU CRYSTALLIN; NOGO RECEPTOR 1; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMIDINE; BIOTIN; BIOTINYLATED DEXTRAN AMINE; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CRYSTALLIN MU; DEXTRAN; DIAMIDINO COMPOUND 253-50; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHORED PROTEIN; MYELIN PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RTN4R PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAY MATTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSGENE; WHITE MATTER; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; AXON; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMIDINES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOTIN; CRYSTALLINS; DEXTRANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GPI-LINKED PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYELIN PROTEINS; NERVE REGENERATION; NOGO RECEPTOR 1; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84947782504     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3165-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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