Cotransplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived neural progenitors and Schwann cells in a rat spinal cord contusion injury model elicits a distinct neurogenesis and functional recovery

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 827-843

  Niapour, Ali ^a,b,c   Karamali, Fereshteh ^a   Nemati, Shiva ^a   Taghipour, Zahra ^a,b   Mardaniz, Mohammad ^b   Nasr Esfahani, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Baharvand, Hossein ^a,d  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ARDABIL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND CULTURE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coculture; Cotransplantation; Differentiation; Human neural progenitor; Rat Schwann cell; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCHWANN CELLS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84862569581     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368911X593163     Document Type: Article

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