Microcarrier enhanced survival of human and rat fetal ventral mesencephalon cells implanted in the rat striatum

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 579-584

  Saporta, Samuel ^a,c   Borlongan, Cesario ^a,d   Moore, Joann ^a   Mejia Millan, Elizabeth ^a   Jones, Stacey L ^a   Bonness, Patrice ^a   Randall, Timothy S ^a   Allen, Richard C ^b   Freeman, Thomas B ^a   Sanberg, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Theracell Inc   (United States)

^c School of Medicine   (United States)

^d Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal ventral mesencephalon cell; Microcarrier; Survival; Transplant

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEXTRANS; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSPHERES; NEURONS; OXIDOPAMINE; PARKINSON DISEASE, SECONDARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 13144260722     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-6897(97)00115-2     Document Type: Article

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