Human mesenchymal precursor cells (Stro-1+) from spinal cord injury patients improve functional recovery and tissue sparing in an acute spinal cord injury rat model

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 393-412

  Hodgetts, Stuart I ^a   Simmons, Paul J ^b   Plant, Giles W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular therapy; Contusion; Mesenchymal precursors; Spinal cord (SC); Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; CYCLOSPORIN A; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ;

ADHERENT CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CYCLOSPORINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, NUDE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84877267545     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368912X656081     Document Type: Article

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