The role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in bone marrow stromal cell-mediated spinal cord repair

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2209-2220

  Ritfeld, Gaby J ^a,b   Patel, Ajay ^c   Chou, Alexander ^c   Novosat, Tabitha L ^a   Castillo, Deborah G ^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 CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Blood vessels; Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs); Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF); Gene therapy; Neuroprotection; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BONE MARROW STROMA CELL; CELL BASED GENE THERAPY; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENE THERAPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROPROTECTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION;

EID: 84945955734     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: 15553892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368915X686201     Document Type: Article

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