Grafting in acute spinal cord injury: morphological and immunological aspects of transplanted adult rat enteric ganglia.

doi:10.1016/0306-4522(93)90161-8

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Grafting in acute spinal cord injury: morphological and immunological aspects of transplanted adult rat enteric ganglia.

Neuroscience - 1 Jan 1993

Jaeger C B, Toombs J P, Borgens R B

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We have studied allogeneic transplants of adult rat enteric ganglia in order to evaluate their use as donor tissue for eventual autografts in rodent spinal cord injury models. Female Sprague-Dawley rats of similar weights served either as transplant donors or as recipients. A glass micropipette o...

Topics

Acetylcholinesterase
Animals
Axons
Female
Ganglia
Histocytochemistry
Microscopy, Electron
Myenteric Plexus
Nerve Regeneration
Neuroglia
Neurons
Phenotype
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Spinal Cord Injuries
Transplantation, Homologous

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