Ependymal cell contribution to scar formation after spinal cord injury is minimal, local and dependent on direct ependymal injury

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Ren, Yilong ^a,b   Ao, Yan ^b   O'Shea, Timothy M ^b   Burda, Joshua E ^b   Bernstein, Alexander M ^b   Brumm, Andrew J ^b   Muthusamy, Nagendran ^c   Ghashghaei, H Troy ^c   Carmichael, S Thomas ^b   Cheng, Liming ^a   Sofroniew, Michael V ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ASTROCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE MODEL; EPENDYMA; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCAR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CICATRIX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPENDYMA; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL STEM CELLS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 85010875151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep41122     Document Type: Article

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