Human dental pulp cells: A new source of cell therapy in a mouse model of compressive spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1939-1949

  De Almeida, Fernanda Martins ^a   Marques, Suelen Adriani ^a,b   Ramalho, Bruna Dos Santos ^a   Rodrigues, Rafaela Fintelman ^a   Cadilhe, Daniel Veloso ^a   Furtado, Daniel ^a   Kerkis, Irina ^c   Pereira, Lygia Veiga ^d   Rehen, Stevens Kastrup ^a   Martinez, Ana Maria Blanco ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Basso Mouse Scale; electron microscopy; global mobility test; human dental pulp cell; spinal cord injury; trophic factors

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROTEIN S 100;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL THERAPY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLIP; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LAMINECTOMY; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; OLIGODENDROGLIA; ORGANIZATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYNAPSE; THORACIC SPINE; TOOTH PULP; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DENTAL PULP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054804744     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1317     Document Type: Article

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