Transplantation of embryonic stem cells improves nerve repair and functional recovery after severe sciatic nerve axotomy in rats

Stem Cells

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1356-1365

  Cui, Lin ^a   Jiang, Jun ^a,c   Wei, Ling ^a,d   Zhou, Xin ^b   Fraser, Jamie L ^a   Snider, B Joy ^d   Shan, Ping Yu ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; Embryonic stem cell; Growth factors; Myelination; Sciatic nerve axotomy

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN S 100; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MYELIN SHEATH; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGENERATION; SCIATIC NERVE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 47949091239     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0333     Document Type: Article

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