Engrafted chicken neural tube-derived stem cells support the innate propensity for axonal regeneration within the rat optic nerve

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3513-3524

  Charalambous, Petar ^a,b   Hurst, Louise A ^a,c   Thanos, Solon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Interdisciplinary Center of Clinical Research IZKF   (Germany)

^c SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CRYSTALLIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; GELATINASE A; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 14; NESTIN; ONCOMODULIN; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AXONAL INJURY; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROENVIRONMENT; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THALAMUS; ANIMAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 14; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL TUBE; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 49049120741     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1473     Document Type: Article

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