Terminally differentiated human neurons survive and integrate following transplantation into the traumatically injured rat brain

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 403-414

  Muir, Judith K ^a   Raghupathi, Ramesh ^a   Saatman, Kathryn E ^a   Wilson, Christina A ^a   Lee, Virginia M Y ^a   Trojanowski, John Q ^a   Philips, Matthew F ^a   McIntosh, Tracy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid percussion; Motor dysfunction; Neuronal grafts; NT2N cells; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN GRAFT; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAT;

EID: 0033032386     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.1999.16.403     Document Type: Article

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