Attempts to facilitate dorsal column axonal regeneration in a neonatal spinal environment

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 372, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 435-456

  Buyan Dent, Laura J ^a   Mccasland, James S ^a   Stelzner, Dennis J ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fetal neural implants; immunohistochemistry; neuroanatomic tracing; retrograde cell loss; spinal injury

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; MYELIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; DORSAL ROOT; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPLANT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINE; SPINE INJURY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 9444249292     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960826)372:3<435::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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