Homologous transplantation of neural stem cells to the injured spinal cord of mice

Neurosurgery

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1014-1024

  Pallini, Roberto ^a   Vitiani, Lucia Ricci ^b   Bez, Alessandra ^c   Casalbore, Patrizia ^d   Facchiano, Francesco ^b   Di Giorgi Gerevini, Valeria ^e   Falchetti, Maria Laura ^d   Fernandez, Eduardo ^a   Maira, Giulio ^a   Peschle, Cesare ^b   Parati, Eugenio ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c National Neurological Institute   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neural stem cells; Spinal cord injury; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN; VIMENTIN;

ALLOGRAFT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GLIA; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RATING SCALE; SCAR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDOLES; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VIMENTIN;

EID: 27644464022     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000180058.58372.4c     Document Type: Article

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