Significant clinical, neuropathological and behavioural recovery from acute spinal cord trauma by transplantation of a well-defined somatic stem cell from human umbilical cord blood

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 431-446

  Schira, Jessica ^a   Gasis, Marcia ^a   Estrada, Veronica ^a   Hendricks, Marion ^a   Schmitz, Christine ^a   Trapp, Thorsten ^a   Kruse, Fabian ^a   Kögler, Gesine ^a   Wernet, Peter ^a   Hartung, Hans Peter ^a   Müller, Hans Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

axon growth; chemotaxis; hepatocyte growth factor; locomotor recovery; tissue sparing

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GAIT; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WALKING;

EID: 84857228824     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr222     Document Type: Article

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