Limitations in transplantation of astroglia-biomatrix bridges to stimulate corticospinal axon regrowth across large spinal lesion gaps

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 400, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 208-212

  Deumens, Ronald ^a   Koopmans, Guido C ^a,b   Honig, Wiel M M ^a,b   Maquet, Véronique ^c   Jérôme, Robert ^c   Steinbusch, Harry W M ^a   Joosten, Elbert A J ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alignment; Corticospinal; Locomotion; Polylactides; Rat; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

POLYLACTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL VIABILITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LABELING INDEX; LOCOMOTION; MACROGLIA; MALE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD LESION; TISSUE SECTION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; POLYESTERS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646254387     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.02.050     Document Type: Article

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