Chitosan channels containing spinal cord-derived stem/progenitor cells for repair of subacute spinal cord injury in the rat

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1733-1744

  Bozkurt, Gokhan ^a,b   Mothe, Andrea J ^a   Zahir, Tasneem ^c   Kim, Howard ^a,c   Shoichet, Molly S ^c   Tator, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult neural stem progenitor cells; Cell survival; Chitosan channel; Differentiation; Intramedullary implantation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLIP; CLIP INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SUBACUTE SPINAL CORD INJURY; SURGICAL INJURY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHITOSAN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECTODYSPLASINS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEMOSTATICS; INDOLES; LOCOMOTION; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 78650436738     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181f9af35     Document Type: Article

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