Hepatocyte growth factor promotes endogenous repair and functional recovery after spinal cord injury

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2332-2342

  Kitamura, Kazuya ^a   Iwanami, Akio ^a,b   Nakamura, Masaya ^a   Yamane, Junichi ^a   Watanabe, Kota ^a   Suzuki, Yoshinori ^c   Miyazawa, Daisuke ^c   Shibata, Shinsuke ^a   Funakoshi, Hiroshi ^c   Miyatake, Shinichi ^d   Coffin, Robert S ^e   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^c   Toyama, Yoshiaki ^a   Okano, Hideyuki ^a,f  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION MURAYAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional recovery; Hepatocyte growth factor; Repair; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LIVER CELL; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34547633098     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21372     Document Type: Article

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