Neuronal progenitor transplantation and respiratory outcomes following upper cervical spinal cord injury in adult rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 231-236

  White, Todd E ^a   Lane, Michael A ^a   Sandhu, Milapjit S ^b   O'Steen, Barbara E ^a   Fuller, David D ^b   Reier, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spinal cord injury; Fetal spinal cord; Phrenic; Rats; Respiratory; Transplantation; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING PATTERN; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; GRAY MATTER; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; ANIMAL; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYOLOGY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MICRODISSECTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MICRODISSECTION; NERVE NET; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 77955665246     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2010.06.006     Document Type: Article

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