Motor and cognitive recovery induced by bone marrow stem cells grafted to striatum and hippocampus of impaired aged rats: Functional and therapeutic considerations

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1019, Issue , 2004, Pages 48-52

  Fernández, Caridad I ^a   Alberti, Esteban ^a   Mendoza, Yissel ^b   Martínez, Lisis ^a   Collazo, Jaime ^a   Rosillo, Juan C ^a   Bauza, José Y ^a  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE RESTAURACIÓN NEUROLÓGICA CIREN   (Cuba)

^b CENTER FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Behavioral recovery; Bone marrow stem cells; Brain aging; Cognition; Grafting; Green fluorescent protein; Motor coordination

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ADENOVIRUS; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN PERFUSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DYSTROPHY; EVALUATION; FEMUR; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOST; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 17044454588     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1297.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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