Early regenerative effects of NGF-transduced Schwann cells in peripheral nerve repair

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-112

  Shakhbazau, Antos ^a,b   Kawasoe, Jean ^a,b   Hoyng, Stefan A ^c,d   Kumar, Ranjan ^a,b   van Minnen, Jan ^a,b   Verhaagen, Joost ^c,e   Midha, Rajiv ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; Lentiviral vector; NGF; Peripheral nerve; Regeneration; Schwann cells

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN NF200; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL BASED GENE THERAPY; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE INJURY; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE THERAPY; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84860604891     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: 10959327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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