Beneficial effects of melatonin combined with exercise on endogenous neural stem/progenitor cells proliferation after spinal cord injury

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 2207-2222

  Lee, Youngjeon ^a,b   Lee, Seunghoon ^a   Lee, Sang Rae ^b   Park, Kanghui ^a   Hong, Yunkyung ^a   Lee, Minkyung ^a   Park, Sookyoung ^a,c,d   Jin, Yunho ^c   Chang, Kyu Tae ^b   Hong, Yonggeun ^a,c,d  

^a Inje University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^c Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Center   (South Korea)

^d Ubiquitous Healthcare Research Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Endogenous neural stem progenitor; Functional recovery; Melatonin; Spinal cord injury; Therapeutic exercise

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; RATING SCALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; KINESIOTHERAPY; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELATONIN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84893196385     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms15022207     Document Type: Article

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