Long-term survival, robust neuronal differentiation, and extensive migration of human forebrain stem/progenitor cells transplanted to the adult rat dorsal root ganglion cavity

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 1115-1123

  Åkesson, Elisabet ^a   Sandelin, Martin ^b   Kanaykina, Nadezda ^b   Aldskogius, Håkan ^b   Kozlova, Elena N ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cell migration; Neural stem cell; Neuronal degeneration; Neuronal regeneration; Plasticity; Sensory neuron

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; DOXYCYCLINE; DOXYFERM; NESTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL GANGLION; SURVIVAL TIME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 60549113951     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368908787236585     Document Type: Article

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