Histological and functional benefit following transplantation of motor neuron progenitors to the injured rat spinal cord.

Motor neuron loss is characteristic of cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) and contributes to functional deficit.In order to investigate the amenability of the injured adult spinal cord to motor neuron differentiation, we transplanted spinal cord injured animals with a high purity population of human...

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Main Authors: Sharyn L Rossi, Gabriel Nistor, Tanya Wyatt, Hong Zhen Yin, Aleksandra J Poole, John H Weiss, Matthew J Gardener, Sipke Dijkstra, David F Fischer, Hans S Keirstead
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2912300?pdf=render