The Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor has a dual role in neuronal and vascular plasticity

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2015, Pages

  Wallner, Stephanie ^a   Peters, Sebastian ^b   Pitzer, Claudia ^c   Resch, Herbert ^a   Bogdahn, Ulrich ^b   Schneider, Armin ^d  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Sygnis Bioscience GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALS; Angiogenesis; Arteriogenesis; G CSF; Neurogenesis; Neuroregeneration; Plasticity; SCI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976376309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2015.00048     Document Type: Review

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