Spinal cord injury: Time to move?

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 44, 2007, Pages 11782-11792

  Rossignol, Serge ^a,b   Schwab, Martin ^c,d   Schwartz, Michal ^e   Fehlings, Michael G ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Locomotion; Macrophage; Myelin repair; Neuroinflammation; Regeneration; Rho GTPases; Spinal cord injury; Sprouting; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

CETHRIN; CLONIDINE; DENDRITIC CELL VACCINE; INHIBITOR PROTEIN; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE 4 SULFATASE; NOGO A ANTIBODY; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN NOGO A; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RILUZOLE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; LOCOMOTION; MACROPHAGE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REMYELINIZATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; VACCINATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSCIENCES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 35948980085     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3444-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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