Therapeutic benefit of treatment of stroke with simvastatin and human umbilical cord blood cells: Neurogenesis, synaptic plasticity, and axon growth

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 845-856

  Cui, Xu ^a   Chopp, Michael ^a,b   Shehadah, Amjad ^a   Zacharek, Alex ^a   Kuzmin Nichols, Nicole ^c   Sanberg, Cyndy Davis ^c   Dai, Junhao ^a   Zhang, Chunling ^a   Ueno, Yuji ^a   Roberts, Cynthia ^a   Chen, Jieli ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Saneron CCEL Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Human umbilical cord blood cells (HUCBCs); Neurogenesis; Simvastatin; Stroke; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

SIMVASTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STROKE; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ANIMALS; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; AXONS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; NEURITES; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, TRKB; SIMVASTATIN; STROKE;

EID: 84862524715     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368911X627417     Document Type: Article

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