Multimodal approaches for regenerative stroke therapies: Combination of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor with bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells is not superior to G-CSF alone

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Balseanu, Adrian Tudor ^a   Buga, Ana Maria ^a,b   Catalin, Bogdan ^a   Wagner, Daniel Christoph ^c   Boltze, Johannes ^c,d,e   Zagrean, Ana Maria ^f   Reymann, Klaus ^g   Schaebitz, Wolf ^h   Popa Wagner, Aurel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^b ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^g GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Angiogenesis; BM MSC; Cell therapy; G CSF; Stroke; Translational medicine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED LEUKOCYTE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; ENDOGLIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 84904551002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00130     Document Type: Article

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