Restoring Function After Spinal Cord Injury: Promoting Spontaneous Regeneration with Stem Cells and Activity-Based Therapies

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 143-168

  Belegu, Visar ^a   Oudega, Martin ^a   Gary, Devin S ^a   McDonald, John W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; 4 AMINOPYRIDINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACLOFEN; BUCLADESINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DIAZEPAM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NERISPIRDINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE IV INHIBITOR; ROLIPRAM; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; TACROLIMUS;

AGING; CELL REGENERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFECTION; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33846609229     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2006.10.012     Document Type: Review

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