Neural stem cells constitutively secrete neurotrophic factors and promote extensive host axonal growth after spinal cord injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-129

  Lu, P ^a   Jones, L L ^a   Snyder, E Y ^b   Tuszynski, M H ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal growth; Ex vivo gene therapy; Neural stem cells; Neurotrophins; Spinal cord injury; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HOST; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIZATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038054469     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4886(03)00037-2     Document Type: Article

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