An update on translating stem cell therapy for stroke from bench to bedside

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 220-241

  Dailey, Travis ^a   Metcalf, Christopher ^a   Mosley, Yusef I ^a   Sullivan, Robert ^a   Shinozuka, Kazutaka ^a   Tajiri, Naoki ^a   Pabon, Mibel ^a   Acosta, Sandra ^a   Kaneko, Yuji ^a   van Loveren, Harry ^a   Borlongan, Cesar V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Stem cells; Stroke; Translational biomedical research; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL THERAPY AGENT; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BREAST MILK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; GENDER; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REVIEW; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TOOTH; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 84908615472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jcm2040220     Document Type: Review

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