Schwann cells generated from neonatal skin-derived precursors or neonatal peripheral nerve improve functional recovery after acute transplantation into the partially injured cervical spinal cord of the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 6714-6730

  Sparling, Joseph S ^a   Bretzner, Frederic ^a   Biernaskie, Jeff ^b   Assinck, Peggy ^a   Jiang, Yuan ^a   Arisato, Hiroki ^a   Plunet, Ward T ^a   Borisoff, Jaimie ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Miller, Freda D ^b   Tetzlaff, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cyclosporine A; Forelimb behavior; Schwann cells; Skin derived precusors; Spinal cord injury; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CATWALK GAIT ANALYSIS TEST; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYLINDER TEST; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; SCHWANN CELL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; DISEASE MODEL; FORELIMB; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STROMA CELL; TRANSGENIC RAT; TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOTIN; BIOTINYLATED DEXTRAN AMINE; DEXTRAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOTIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CERVICAL CORD; DEXTRANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCHWANN CELLS; SKIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84929377298     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1070-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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