Bone marrow stromal cell-mediated tissue sparing enhances functional repair after spinal cord contusion in adult rats

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1561-1575

  Ritfeld, Gaby J ^a,b   Nandoe Tewarie, Rishi D S ^c   Vajn, Katarina ^a   Rahiem, Sahar T ^d   Hurtado, Andres ^d,e   Wendell, Dane F ^d   Roos, Raymund A C ^b   Oudega, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Bone marrow stromal cell (BMSC); Gridwalk; Locomotion; Neuroprotection; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84930479771     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368912X640484     Document Type: Article

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