The effects of human umbilical cord blood transplantation in rats with experimentally induced spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 543-551

  Kaner, Tuncay ^a   Karadag, Tolga ^b   Cirak, Bayram ^c   Erken, Haydar Ali ^c   Karabulut, Aysun ^b   Kiroglu, Yilmaz ^c   Akkaya, Semih ^c   Acar, Feridun ^c   Coskun, Erdal ^c   Genc, Osman ^c   Colakoglu, Nagihan ^c  

^a Pendik State Hospital   (Turkey)

^b DENIZLI STATE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Human umbilical cord blood; Injury; Regenerative therapy; Spinal cord; Stem cell; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; LAMINECTOMY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; ANIMAL; FETUS BLOOD; HUMAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFLEX; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL ROOT; TRANSPLANTATION; VERTEBRA; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 77957967797     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.4.SPINE09685     Document Type: Article

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