Axon Guidance Molecules and Neural Circuit Remodeling After Spinal Cord Injury

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 360-369

  Hollis, Edmund R ^a,b  

^a BURKE MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FEIL FAMILY BRAIN AND MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

axon plasticity; ephrin; functional recovery; SCI; semaphorin; Wnt

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; SEMAPHORIN; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL INTERACTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DENDRITE; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THEORY; ANIMAL; AXON GUIDANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AXON GUIDANCE; EPHRINS; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SEMAPHORINS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84949999693     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-015-0416-0     Document Type: Review

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