Intravenously transplanted bone marrow stromal cells promote recovery of lower urinary tract function in rats with complete spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 202-207

  Hu, Y ^a,b   Liao, L M ^a   Ju, Y H ^a   Fu, G ^a   Zhang, H Y ^a   Wu, H X ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JINHUA MUNICIPAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

injections; intravenous; lower urinary tract; mesenchymal stem cells; rats; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER SPHINCTER; BONE MARROW CELL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOMETRY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESIDUAL URINE; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STROMA CELL; URINARY TRACT FUNCTION; URODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STROMAL CELLS; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 84857921506     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2011.128     Document Type: Article

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