Transplantation of human glial restricted progenitors and derived astrocytes into a contusion model of spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 579-594

  Jin, Ying ^a   Neuhuber, Birgit ^a   Singh, Anita ^a   Bouyer, Julien ^a   Lepore, Angelo ^b   Bonner, Joseph ^a   Himes, Tim ^a   Campanelli, James T ^c   Fischer, Itzhak ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Q Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

axon growth; bladder control; motor and sensory function; neural stem cells; scar formation

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; RAT; SCAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; XENOGRAFT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, NUDE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 79953833683     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1626     Document Type: Article

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