Transplantation of neural stem cells clonally derived from embryonic stem cells promotes recovery after murine spinal cord injury

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 36-50

  Salewski, Ryan P ^a,b   Mitchell, Robert A ^a,c   Shen, Carl ^a,b   Fehlings, Michael G ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GAIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REMYELINIZATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CONVALESCENCE; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NEURAL STEM CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MICE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84919800722     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: 15578534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2014.0096     Document Type: Article

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