Neurotrophic factor-expressing mesenchymal stem cells survive transplantation into the contused spinal cord without differentiating into neural cells

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3049-3059

  Rooney, Gemma E ^a   McMahon, Siobhan S ^a   Ritter, Thomas ^a   Garcia, Yolanda ^a   Moran, Cathal ^a   Madigan, Nicolas N ^a   Flügel, Alexander ^b   Dockery, Peter ^a   O'Brien, Timothy ^a   Howard, Linda ^a   Windebank, Anthony J ^c   Barry, Frank P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; DOSIMETRY; FLOWCHARTING; FLUORESCENCE; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; PROTEINS; STEM CELLS;

CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GENE DELIVERY; GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR; IMPACTORS; LIMITED CAPACITY; LOCAL DELIVERY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NEURAL CELLS; NEURAL DIFFERENTIATIONS; NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS; NEUROTROPHINS; POSTTRANSPLANTATION; RAT SPINAL CORD; RETROVIRAL VECTORS; SPINAL CORDS; THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS; THERAPEUTIC GENES; TRANSGENE;

CELL CULTURE;

RATTUS;

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 73349130817     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0045     Document Type: Article

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