Could cord blood cell therapy reduce preterm brain injury?

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Li, Jingang ^a   McDonald, Courtney A ^a   Fahey, Michael C ^a,b   Jenkin, Graham ^a,b   Miller, Suzanne L ^a,b  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain damage; Cerebral palsy; Hypoxia ischemia; Inflammation; Low birth weight; Oligodendrocytes; Periventricular leukomalacia; Preterm birth; Stem cells; Umbilical cord blood; White matter injury

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIN; ANGIOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONNEXIN 43; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OCCLUDIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXCITOTOXICITY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MACROPHAGE; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREMATURE LABOR; PRETERM BRAIN INJURY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UPREGULATION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84907992263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00200     Document Type: Review

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