Human umbilical cord blood treatment in a mouse model of ALS: optimization of cell dose.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a multicausal disease characterized by motor neuron degeneration in the spinal cord and brain. Cell therapy may be a promising new treatment for this devastating disorder. We recently showed that a single low dose (10(6) cells) of mononuclear human umbilical co...

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Main Authors: Svitlana Garbuzova-Davis, Cyndy Davis Sanberg, Nicole Kuzmin-Nichols, Alison E Willing, Carmelina Gemma, Paula C Bickford, Christina Miller, Robert Rossi, Paul R Sanberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2429976?pdf=render