Spinal cord reconstitution with homologous neural grafts enables robust corticospinal regeneration

Nature Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 479-487

  Kadoya, Ken ^a,b   Lu, Paul ^a,c   Nguyen, Kenny ^a   Lee Kubli, Corinne ^a   Kumamaru, Hiromi ^a   Yao, Lin ^d,e,f   Knackert, Joshua ^d,e,f   Poplawski, Gunnar ^a   Dulin, Jennifer N ^a   Strobl, Hans ^a   Takashima, Yoshio ^a   Biane, Jeremy ^a   Conner, James ^a   Zhang, Su Chun ^d   Tuszynski, Mark H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DOUBLECORTIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NESTIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYNAPSE; WHITE MATTER; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AXON; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NEUROEPITHELIUM CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCAR; THORACIC VERTEBRA; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CICATRIX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MALE; MICE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROEPITHELIAL CELLS; NEUROGLIA; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPSES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84961905719     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.4066     Document Type: Article

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