Analysis of host-mediated repair mechanisms after human CNS-stem cell transplantation for spinal cord injury: Correlation of engraftment with recovery

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Hooshmand, Mitra J ^a   Sontag, Christopher J ^a   Uchida, Nobuko ^b   Tamaki, Stan ^b   Anderson, Aileen J ^a   Cummings, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b StemCells Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG MECHANISM; ENGRAFTMENT; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOCOMOTION; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEREOLOGY; ANIMAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOPLASM; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650046974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005871     Document Type: Article

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