Treating spinal cord injury in rats with a combination of human fetal neural stem cells and hydrogels modified with serotonin

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-115

  Růžička, Jiří ^a,b   Romanyuk, Nataliya ^a   Hejčl, Aleš ^a,c   Vetrík, Miroslav ^b,d   Hrubý, Martin ^d   Cocks, Graham ^e   Cihlář, Jiří ^f   Přádný, Martin ^d   Price, Jack ^e   Syková, Eva ^a,b   Jendelová, Pavla ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Masaryk Hospital   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Hemisection; Hydrogel; Neural stem cells; Serotonin; SPC 01; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878386951     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 16890035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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