Cotransplantation of glial restricted precursor cells and schwann cells promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2219-2236

  Hu, Jian Guo ^a,b   Wang, Xiao Fei ^a   Deng, Ling Xiao ^a   Liu, Nai Kui ^a   Gao, Xiang ^a   Chen, Jing Hui ^a   Zhou, Feng Cheng ^a   Xu, Xiao Ming ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BENGBU MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Functional recovery; Glial restricted precursor cells (GRPs); Schwann cells (SCs); Spinal cord injury (SCI); Transplantation

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; GLIAL RESTRICTED PRECURSOR CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYELIN SHEATH; OLIGODENDROGLIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGENERATION; SCHWANN CELLS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84890390039     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368912X661373     Document Type: Article

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