Cellular and paracellular transplants for spinal cord injury: A review of the literature

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-243

  Mortazavi, Martin M ^a   Verma, Ketan ^a   Tubbs, R Shane ^a   Theodore, Nicholas ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury; Paralysis; Spinal cord; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; ALGINIC ACID; CYCLOSPORIN; HYALURONIC ACID; MACROGOL; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; MATRIGEL; POLYGLACTIN; POLYMETHACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TACROLIMUS; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

AMNIOTIC FLUID CELL; AVULSION INJURY; BIOENGINEERING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY ENSHEATHING CELL; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMPLANTATION; REVIEW; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SCHWANN CELLS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 78951487093     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-010-1312-x     Document Type: Review

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