Repair of acutely injured spinal cord through constructing tissue-engineered neural complex in adult rats

Chinese Journal of Traumatology - English Edition

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 171-176

  Pu, Yu ^a   Guo, Qing Shan ^a   Wang, Ai Min ^a   Wu, Si Yu ^a   Xing, Shu Xing ^a   Zhang, Zhong Rong ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Polyglycolic acid; Spinal cord injuries; Stem cell transplantation; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

POLYGLYCOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMPLANTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34250169428     PISSN: 10081275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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