Functional characterization of NGF-secreting cell grafts to the acutely injured spinal cord

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 361-368

  Tuszynski, Mark H ^a   Murai, Keith ^b   Blesch, Armin ^b   Grill, Ray ^b   Miller, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Corticospinal; Function; Locomotion; Nerve growth factor (NGP); Neurotrophic factors; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; LOCOMOTION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; AXONS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR PROBES; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030973478     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-6897(97)00021-3     Document Type: Article

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