A self-assembling peptide reduces glial scarring, attenuates post-traumatic inflammation and promotes neurological recovery following spinal cord injury

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 8075-8088

  Liu, Yang ^a   Ye, Hui ^a   Satkunendrarajah, Kajana ^a   Yao, Gordon S ^a   Bayon, Yves ^b   Fehlings, Michael G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nanofiber; Neurological recovery; Self assembling peptide; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CELL DEATH; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; PATHOLOGY; PEPTIDES; RECOVERY; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

% REDUCTIONS; ASTROGLIOSIS; FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY; NEUROLOGICAL RECOVERIES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; SELF-ASSEMBLING PEPTIDES; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL-CORD; TISSUES ENGINEERINGS;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; SELF ASSEMBLING PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GLIA CELL; GLIAL SCARRING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

RATTUS;

EID: 84880916642     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: 18787568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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