Transplantation of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural stem cells mediate functional recovery following thoracic spinal cord injury through remyelination of axons

Stem Cells Translational Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 743-754

  Salewski, Ryan P ^a,b,c   Mitchell, Robert A ^a,c   Li, Lijun ^a   Shen, Carl ^a   Milekovskaia, Maria ^b   Nagy, Andras ^b,c,d   Fehlingsa, Michael G ^a,b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Induced pluripotent stem cells; Myelination; Neural stem cells; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CD1 ANTIGEN; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLOSPORIN A; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; NESTIN; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REMYELINIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

IPS;

EID: 84936998347     PISSN: 21576564     EISSN: 21576580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5966/sctm.2014-0236     Document Type: Article

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