Transplantation of specific human astrocytes promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Davies, Stephen J A ^a   Shih, Chung Hsuan ^b   Noble, Mark ^b   Mayer Proschel, Margot ^b   Davies, Jeannette E ^a   Proschel, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THERAPY EFFECT; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SHAPE; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GLIA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEM CELL; TRANSPLANTATION;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SHAPE; CELL SURVIVAL; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTOPROTECTION; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELLS;

EID: 79952284700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017328     Document Type: Article

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