Transplantation of embryonic neurones to replace missing spinal motoneurones

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3 AXONAL REGENERATO, 2008, Pages 215-223

  Nógrádi, Antal ^a   Szabó, András ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

ALS; Motoneurone; Reinnervation; Skeletal muscle; Spinal cord; Spinal injury; Ventral root

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE;

AVULSION INJURY; CELL SURVIVAL; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; MITOSIS; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROWTH CONES; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 52649151267     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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