Synergistic effects of self-assembling peptide and neural stem/progenitor cells to promote tissue repair and forelimb functional recovery in cervical spinal cord injury

Biomaterials

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2617-2629

  Iwasaki, Motoyuki ^a   Wilcox, Jared T ^a,b   Nishimura, Yusuke ^a   Zweckberger, Klaus ^a   Suzuki, Hidenori ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Karadimas, Spyridon K ^a,b   Fehlings, Michael G ^a,b  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cervical cord injury; Functional recovery; Neural precursor cell; Self assembling nanofiber; Tissue preservation

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL CORD INJURY; FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY; NEURAL PRECURSOR CELL; SELF-ASSEMBLING NANOFIBER; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GAIT; GLIOSIS; INFLAMMATION; MICROGLIA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84895026595     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.12.019     Document Type: Article

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