Fibrin-based tissue engineering scaffolds enhance neural fiber sprouting and delay the accumulation of reactive astrocytes at the lesion in a subacute model of spinal cord injury

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 152-163

  Johnson, Philip J ^a   Parker, Stanley R ^a   Sakiyama Elbert, Shelly E ^a,b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CNS scaffold; Glial scar; Nerve regeneration; Spinal cord regeneration

Indexed keywords

AFTER-TREATMENT; CELL-BASED THERAPY; CELLULAR MIGRATION; CHONDROITIN SULFATE PROTEOGLYCANS; CNS SCAFFOLDS; FIBRIN SCAFFOLD; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEINS; GLIAL SCAR; LESION SITE; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL FIBERS; RAT SPINAL CORD; SCAR TISSUES; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORDS; TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLD; UNTREATED CONTROL; WOUND SITE;

BIOMATERIALS; DOSIMETRY; DRUG DELIVERY; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

SCAFFOLDS;

FIBRIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPLANTATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ASTROCYTES; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIBRIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MICROGLIA; NERVE FIBERS; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 73549086992     PISSN: 15493296     EISSN: 15524965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.32343     Document Type: Article

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