Transplantation of human glial-restricted neural precursors into injured spinal cord promotes functional and sensory recovery without causing allodynia

Cytotherapy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-68

  Alexanian, Arshak R ^a   Svendsen, Clive N ^b   Crowe, Maria J ^a   Kurpad, Shekar N ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Injury; Neural progenitor cells; Regeneration; Spinal cord; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

LAMININ; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; POLYORNITHINE;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CELL CULTURE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HINDLIMB; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSATION; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; THERAPY EFFECT;

EID: 78650324250     PISSN: 14653249     EISSN: 14772566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14653249.2010.510504     Document Type: Article

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