Repair of injured spinal cord using biomaterial scaffolds and stem cells

Stem Cell Research and Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Shrestha, Bikesh ^a   Coykendall, Katherine ^a   Li, Yongchao ^a   Moon, Alex ^a   Priyadarshani, Priyanka ^a   Yao, Li ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

AXON; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; CONVALESCENCE; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; WOUND HEALING;

AXONS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELLS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84905395082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17576512     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/scrt480     Document Type: Review

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