Transplantation of neural stem cells enhances expression of synaptic protein and promotes functional recovery in a rat model of traumatic brain injury

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 849-856

  Ma, Haiying ^a,b   Yu, Bo ^a   Kong, Li ^a,b   Zhang, Yuanyuan ^b,c   Shi, Yuxiu ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neural stem cell; Synaptogenesis; Transplantation; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

NEUROMODULIN; PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP-43 PROTEIN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL STEM CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

RATTUS;

EID: 79960401773     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2011.510     Document Type: Article

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