Matrix inclusion within synthetic hydrogel guidance channels improves specific supraspinal and local axonal regeneration after complete spinal cord transection

Biomaterials

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 519-533

  Tsai, Eve C ^a   Dalton, Paul D ^b   Shoichet, Molly S ^b   Tator, Charles H ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; Fibroblast growth factor 1; Functional recovery; Matrigel ; Methylcellulose; Neurotrophin 3

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; DISEASES; IMMUNOLOGY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEUROLOGY; POLYPEPTIDES;

AXONAL REGENERATION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR-1; FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY; MATRIGEL™; METHYLCELLULOSE; NEUROTROPHIN-3;

HYDROGELS;

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; COLLAGEN; FIBRIN; FIBRIN GLUE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; GROWTH FACTOR; MATRIGEL; METHYLCELLULOSE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYDROGEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; COLLAGEN; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; FIBRIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; HYDROGELS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMININ; METHYLCELLULOSE; METHYLMETHACRYLATES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; POLYHYDROXYETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROTEOGLYCANS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 26844526040     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2005.07.025     Document Type: Article

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