Extramedullary chitosan channels promote survival of transplanted neural stem and progenitor cells and create a tissue bridge after complete spinal cord transection

Tissue Engineering - Part A.

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 649-665

  Nomura, Hiroshi ^a   Zahir, Tasneem ^b,c   Kim, Howard ^c,d   Katayama, Yusuke ^e   Kulbatski, Iris ^a   Morshead, Cindi M ^d   Shoichet, Molly S ^b,c,d   Tator, Charles H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e MatREGEN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; NEURONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROTEINS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

OLIGODENDROCYTIC DIFFERENTIATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD TRANSECTION;

CHITOSAN;

CHITOSAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TISSUE REACTION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 43649100748     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/tea.2007.0180     Document Type: Article

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