Electroacupuncture promotes the differentiation of transplanted bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells overexpressing TrkC into neuron-like cells in transected spinal cord of rats

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-86

  Ding, Ying ^a   Yan, Qing ^a   Ruan, Jing Wen ^b   Zhang, Yan Qing ^a   Li, Wen Jie ^a   Zeng, Xiang ^b   Huang, Si Fan ^a   Zhang, Yu Jiao ^a   Wu, Jin Lang ^a   Fisher, Danny ^c   Dong, Hongxin ^c   Zeng, Yuan Shan ^a,b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs); Differentiation; Electroacupuncture; Transected spinal cord (TSC); Tyrosine receptor kinase C (TrkC)

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; LAMININ; NEUROMODULIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LOCOMOTION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYNAPTOGENESIS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTOR, TRKC; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84873036439     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368912X655037     Document Type: Article

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