Human adult dental pulp stem cells enhance poststroke functional recovery through non-neural replacement mechanisms

Stem Cells Translational Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 177-187

  Leong, Wai Khay ^a,b   Henshall, Tanya L ^b   Arthur, Agnes ^a,b   Kremer, Karlea L ^a,b   Lewis, Martin D ^a,b   Helps, Stephen C ^b   Field, John ^c   Hamilton Bruce, Monica A ^c   Warming, Scott ^b   Manavis, Jim ^d   Vink, Robert ^b   Gronthos, Stan ^a,b   Koblar, Simon A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c HANSON INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dental pulp stem cells; Functional recovery; Rat model; Stem cell transplantation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL MIGRATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TOOTH PULP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; ADULT STEM CELL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FORELIMB; METABOLISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY GATING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADULT; ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENTAL PULP; FORELIMB; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY GATING; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STROKE;

EID: 84872101947     PISSN: 21576564     EISSN: 21576580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5966/sctm.2011-0039     Document Type: Article

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