Transplantation of human neural stem cells transduced with Olig2 transcription factor improves locomotor recovery and enhances myelination in the white matter of rat spinal cord following contusive injury

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 117-

  Hwang, Dong H ^a   Kim, Byung G ^a   Kim, Eun J ^a   Lee, Seung I ^a   Joo, In S ^a   Suh Kim, Haeyoung ^a   Sohn, Seonghyang ^a   Kim, Seung U ^a,b,c  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Chung Ang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.2; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; OLIG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATION; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THERAPY EFFECT; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOLOGY; FETAL STEM CELL; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSPLANTATION; VERTEBRA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FETAL STEM CELLS; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TELENCEPHALON; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 70349785405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-117     Document Type: Article

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