A new combined therapeutic strategy of governor vessel electro-acupuncture and adult stem cell transplantation promotes the recovery of injured spinal cord

Current Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 33, 2011, Pages 5165-5171

  Liu, Z ^a   Ding, Y ^a   Zeng, Y S ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bone marrow mesenchymal cells; Electro acupuncture; Functional recovery; Nerve regeneration; Neural stem cells; Neurotrophic factors; Spinal cord injury; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COLLAPSIN RESPONSE MEDIATOR PROTEIN 2; GELATINASE A; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOCORTIN 5; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C GAMMA; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ADULT STEM CELL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL SURVIVAL; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GOVERNOR VESSEL ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; MESENCHYME CELL; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; PARAPLEGIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REHABILITATION CARE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

BONE MARROW CELLS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE REGENERATION; QI; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 80054848945     PISSN: 09298673     EISSN: 1875533X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986711797636144     Document Type: Article

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