Engineering angiogenesis following spinal cord injury: A coculture of neural progenitor and endothelial cells in a degradable polymer implant leads to an increase in vessel density and formation of the blood-spinal cord barrier

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 132-145

  Rauch, Millicent Ford ^a   Hynes, Sara Royce ^a   Bertram, James ^a   Redmond, Andy ^b   Robinson, Rebecca ^a   Williams, Cicely ^c   Xu, Hao ^a   Madri, Joseph A ^b   Lavik, Erin B ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood spinal cord barrier; Hydrogel; Microvasculature; Poly(lactic co glycolic acid); Rat; Scaffold

Indexed keywords

NEUROMODULIN; POLYMER;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL; WHITE MATTER;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GLYCOLATES; HYDROGELS; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149116603     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06567.x     Document Type: Article

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