Gait analysis of spinal cord injured rats after delivery of chondroitinase ABC and adult olfactory mucosa progenitor cell transplantation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 472, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-84

  Huang, Wen Cheng ^a,b,c   Kuo, Wen Chun ^a   Hsu, Sung Hao ^a,d   Cheng, Chu Hsun ^a,c   Liu, Jiang Chuan ^b   Cheng, Henrich ^a,b,c  

^a Neurological Institute   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan; Chondroitinase ABC; Intrathecal catheter; Olfactory mucosa progenitor cells; Spinal cord injury (SCI); Treadmil

Indexed keywords

CHONDROITIN ABC LYASE; PROTEIN NG2; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SPREADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRUG MECHANISM; GAIT; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TIME PERCEPTION; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHONDROITIN ABC LYASE; GAIT; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; RATS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 77349083668     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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