Brief report: Astrogliosis promotes functional recovery of completely transected spinal cord following transplantation of hESC-derived oligodendrocyte and motoneuron progenitors

Stem Cells

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 594-599

  Lukovic, Dunja ^a   Valdés Sanchez, Lourdes ^a   Sanchez Vera, Irene ^a   Moreno Manzano, Victoria ^b   Stojkovic, Miodrag ^c,d   Bhattacharya, Shomi S ^a   Erceg, Slaven ^a  

^a CABIMER Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine CSIC University of Seville UPO   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^c Spebo Medical ^*  (Spain)

^d Human Genetics   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell transplantation; Cellular therapy; Neural differentiation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLULAR THERAPY; NEURAL DIFFERENTIATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ASTROCYTES; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE REGENERATION; OLIGODENDROGLIA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84894582471     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: 15494918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1562     Document Type: Article

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