Molecular mechanisms underlying effects of neural stem cells against traumatic axonal injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 295-312

  Wang, Enyin ^a,b   Gao, Junling ^a   Yang, Qin ^c   Parsley, Margaret O ^a   Dunn, Tiffany J ^a   Zhang, Lin ^b   Dewitt, Douglas S ^a   Denner, Larry ^a   Prough, Donald S ^a   Wu, Ping ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

SMA; calcineurin; GDNF; human NSC; Rho; TBI; traumatic axonal injury

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; RHO KINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FETUS; FIMBRIA; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NERVE FIBER; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEOMICS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84863083436     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2011.2043     Document Type: Article

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