Intravenous grafts of amniotic fluid-derived stem cells induce endogenous cell proliferation and attenuate behavioral deficits in ischemic stroke rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Tajiri, Naoki ^a   Acosta, Sandra ^a   Glover, Loren E ^a   Bickford, Paula C ^a   Jacotte Simancas, Alejandra ^b   Yasuhara, Takao ^c   Date, Isao ^c   Solomita, Marianna A ^a,d   Antonucci, Ivana ^d   Stuppia, Liborio ^d   Kaneko, Yuji ^a   Borlongan, Cesar V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2;

AMNIOTIC FLUID CELL; AMNIOTIC FLUID STEM CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL LABELING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COGNITION; DENTATE GYRUS; EMBRYO; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ISCHEMIA; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MALE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865101777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043779     Document Type: Article

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