Increased Numbers of Thoracic Dorsal Root Axons in Rats Given Antibodies to Nerve Growth Factor
- 3 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 225 (4661) , 525-526
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6740324
Abstract
Sensory axons were counted in untreated 1-month-old rats and in littermates that were injected with antibodies to nerve growth factor. There were 45 percent more unmyelinated and 17 percent more myelinated axons in dorsal roots of the fifth thoracic spinal segment in treated rats. This suggests that the number of sensory axons can be changed by postnatal inactivation of nerve growth factor.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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