Intramuscular Transplantation of Myogenic Cells in Primates: Importance of Needle Size, Cell Number, and Injection Volume

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-25

  Skuk, Daniel ^a   Goulet, Marlyne ^a   Tremblay, Jacques P ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intramuscular injection; Myoblast transplantation; Nonhuman primates; Skeletal muscle; Technical parameters

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; TACROLIMUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DRUG INJECTION VOLUME; ENGRAFTMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC CODE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAMUSCULAR MYOGENIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MYOBLAST; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOBLASTS; NEEDLES;

EID: 84892614533     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368912X661337     Document Type: Article

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