The soft mechanical signature of glial scars in the central nervous system

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Moeendarbary, Emad ^a,b,c   Weber, Isabell P ^a   Sheridan, Graham K ^a,d   Koser, David E ^a,g   Soleman, Sara ^e   Haenzi, Barbara ^e   Bradbury, Elizabeth J ^f   Fawcett, James ^e   Franze, Kristian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b USA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LAMININ; VIMENTIN;

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; COLLAGEN; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITION; INJURY; MATRIX; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; REGROWTH; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN TISSUE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRUSH TRAUMA; EXPERIMENTAL CNS INJURY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GLIA; GLIOSIS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RIGIDITY; SCAR; SCAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAB WOUND; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CICATRIX; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LAMININ; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; RATS; SPINAL CORD; VIMENTIN;

EID: 85015789670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14787     Document Type: Article

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