Recent therapeutic strategies for spinal cord injury treatment: Possible role of stem cells

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 293-311

  Garbossa, D ^a   Boido, M ^a   Fontanella, M ^a   Fronda, C ^a   Ducati, A ^a   Vercelli, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axonal reorganization; Cell replacement; Regenerative approach; Spinal cord injury; Stem cells; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

BONE MARROW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISABILITY; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GLIA; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; MACROGLIA; MACROPHAGE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SCAR; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84862877006     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-012-0385-2     Document Type: Review

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