Neuroscience and Medicine

Vol.5 No.5(2014), Paper ID 51681, 8 pages

DOI:10.4236/nm.2014.55025

 

Depletion of Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor by Disuse Muscle Atrophy Exacerbates the Degeneration of Alpha Motor Neurons in Caudal Regions Remote from the Spinal Cord Injury

 

Yu-Ichiro Ohnishi, Koichi Iwatsuki, Toshiki Yoshimine

 

Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Japan
Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Japan
Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Japan

 

Copyright © 2014 Yu-Ichiro Ohnishi, Koichi Iwatsuki, Toshiki Yoshimine et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Ohnishi, Y. , Iwatsuki, K. and Yoshimine, T. (2014) Depletion of Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor by Disuse Muscle Atrophy Exacerbates the Degeneration of Alpha Motor Neurons in Caudal Regions Remote from the Spinal Cord Injury. Neuroscience and Medicine, 5, 214-221. doi: 10.4236/nm.2014.55025.

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