Transplantation of human umbilical cord blood or amniotic epithelial stem cells alleviates mechanical allodynia after spinal cord injury in rats

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1577-1590

  Roh, Dae Hyun ^a   Seo, Min Soo ^b,d   Choi, Hoon Seong ^b   Park, Sang Bum ^b   Han, Ho Jae ^b   Beitz, Alvin J ^c   Kang, Kyung Sun ^b   Lee, Jang Hern ^b  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Daegu Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Human amniotic epithelial stem cells (hAESCS); Human umbilical cord blood derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUCB MSCs); Mechanical allodynia (MA); NMDA receptor; Spinal cord injury (SCI)

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THERAPY EFFECT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMNION; AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84883491558     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368912X659907     Document Type: Article

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