Repairing the damaged spinal cord: A summary of our early success with embryonic stem cell transplantation and remyelination

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 137, Issue , 2002, Pages 299-309

  McDonald, John W ^a   Howard, Michael J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; METENKEPHALIN; MYELIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PERIPHERIN; SEROTONIN;

APOPTOSIS; CELL MIGRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMYELINATION; EMBRYO CELL; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMYELINIZATION; SPINAL CORD LESION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0036454328     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)37023-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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