Human hepatocyte growth factor promotes functional recovery in primates after spinal cord injury

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Kitamura, Kazuya ^a,b   Fujiyoshi, Kanehiro ^a   Yamane, Jun ichi ^a   Toyota, Fumika ^c   Hikishima, Keigo ^a,c   Nomura, Tatsuji ^c   Funakoshi, Hiroshi ^d   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^e   Aoki, Masashi ^f   Toyama, Yoshiaki ^a   Okano, Hideyuki ^a   Nakamura, Masaya ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Hiratsuka City Hospital   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

^d ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; RECOMBINANT SCATTER FACTOR; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; HGF PROTEIN, HUMAN; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; LUXOL FAST BLUE MBS; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALLITRICHINAE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND MOVEMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN FIELD TEST; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TREATMENT DURATION; WALKING; ANIMAL; CALLITHRIX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENZYMOLOGY; FINGER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYELIN SHEATH; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAINING; TIME; WRIST;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; CALLITHRIX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FINGERS; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; INDOLES; MOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MYELIN SHEATH; ORGAN SIZE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME FACTORS; WRIST;

EID: 82255161833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027706     Document Type: Article

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