Improving recovery of spinal cord-injured rats by telomerase-driven human neural progenitor cells

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 469-476

  Xu, Guanghui ^a   Li, Xiaoxia ^b   Bai, Yun ^b   Bai, Jinzhu ^a   Li, Lingsong ^b   Shen, Li ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

BBB locomotor scale; Differentiation; Motor evoked potentials; Neural progenitor cells; Spinal cord injury; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; O ANTIGENS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; S100 PROTEINS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TELOMERASE; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 17244377742     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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