Transplantation of a combination of autologous neural differentiated and undifferentiated mesenchymal stem cells into injured spinal cord of rats

Spinal Cord

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 457-463

  Pedram, M S ^a   Dehghan, M M ^a   Soleimani, M ^b   Sharifi, D ^a   Marjanmehr, S H ^a   Nasiri, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Behavioral improvement; Bone marrow; Mesenchymal stem cell; Spinal cord injury; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; EMBOLECTOMY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 77953233503     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2009.153     Document Type: Article

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