Embryonic stem cell-derived motor neurons preserve muscle after peripheral nerve injury

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 235-245

  Craff, Melody N ^a   Zeballos, Jose L ^a   Johnson, Timothy S ^a   Ranka, Milan P ^a   Howard, Robert ^a   Motarjem, Pejman ^a   Randolph, Mark A ^a   Winograd, Jonathan M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; INJURY; INNERVATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33847062558     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000244863.71080.f0     Document Type: Article

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