Effects of neural progenitor cells on post-stroke neurological impairment—a detailed and comprehensive analysis of behavioral tests

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Doeppner, Thorsten R ^a   Kaltwasser, Britta ^a   Bähr, Mathias ^b   Hermann, Dirk M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral tests; Cerebral ischemia; Functional outcome; Neural progenitor cells; Stem cells; Stroke; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE REMOVAL TEST; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTION TEST; GRIP STRENGTH TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFARCT VOLUME ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; POSTOPERATIVE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84908235761     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00338     Document Type: Article

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